Billy Timmins (Wicklow, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Fair enough. I acknowledge the presence of Mr. O'Brien and his staff. You have a most thankless job and you and your organisation have a very isolated position. His decision not to inform people before Christmas based on the evidence they had might have been correct, so I would not beat myself up over it if I were him. Have any GSOC members felt under threat or under surveillance at any time individually outside of this suspected surveillance of the organisation and its offices? When the sweep that uncovered the first and second threat was carried out on 23 and 27 September, should it have uncovered the threat that was discovered on 19 October, or was there a view that the third threat, the Wi-Fi instrument, was put in after 27 September? Is it possible that it was there and a full sweep was not carried out?

Threats one and two were in the conference call room, and one was in the conference phone in the chairman's office. Would the person who placed these devices have needed inside knowledge? Were they placed strategically? If I went into the office with two devices to plant, would I be able to pick the phones I needed or would I need insider knowledge to know that they were the right phones? Who would be involved in conference calls? I cannot envisage GSOC using the phones for sensitive material via a conference call. In what context would GSOC use both of those phones where the bugs were placed?