Mick Wallace (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

With regard to the second anomaly, Mr. Kieran FitzGerald stated last night that the chances that this anomaly with a conference call was benign or the result of a coincidence were estimated as close to zero. Was this not enough to reach the standard of definitive proof that an attempt at covert surveillance was made? The real question is who initiated it.

In light of the Minister's very carefully worded findings that there was no definitive evidence of unauthorised technical or electronic surveillance, and that databases in the office had not been compromised, has the commission received or sought unequivocal and categorical assurances from the Minister and the Garda Síochána as to whether any authorised or lawful covert surveillance has been authorised on the GSOC or any part thereof since its creation in 2007?