Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 12 February 2014
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions
Security and Protocol Issues: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission
6:25 pm
Mr. Simon O'Brien:
With regard to the Deputy's last question, I spoke with the Garda Commissioner yesterday in a private capacity. I have no evidence in that regard and I have every confidence in An Garda Síochána. As I stated, we identified suspicious threats within our building and, having investigated those, we can find no evidence that an offence has been committed. With regard to definitive proof, I come back to my original comments. We are talking about levels of suspicions. One test had a high bar in terms of the likelihood of repeat. I say again that we repeated the test a number of times.
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