Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I presume they are continuing their investigation. It is not the job of the High Court judge to investigate, but as it is part of the overall issue, the High Court judge may certainly raise questions about that matter. There is nothing to prevent GSOC continuing to do whatever it is doing.

There are technical issues in dispute between Verrimus and Rits. Quite clearly there are differences between them on a number of matters and I think it is right that the judge addresses those matters with whatever technical help is needed.

I hope that by the end of the day the terms of reference will be published and the name of the judge announced. I said earlier that, as far as I knew, that the conference call system is not used. That was my understanding but my officials advised me that in fact it is apparently used from time to time but it does not influence the technical issue of whether the test that was done indicates whether it was in some way compromised. I want to say that for fear that somebody will tell me-----