Lucinda Creighton (Dublin South East, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The Minister said yesterday in his statement that there is no evidence that surveillance had taken place. Commissioner FitzGerald said on RTE’s “Prime Time” that with regard to the conference call facility specifically, the international experts that were hired stated that the chances of that particular software not being subject to surveillance were close to zero. Does Mr. O’Brien agree that the third party report at the very least amounts to documentary evidence that surveillance had in fact taken place? It might not be admissible in terms of evidential admissibility in court to establish guilt or criminal behaviour but it does amount to evidence.