Mr. Liam Herrick:

I am not speaking to the question of financial risk to the State but purely from the perspective of privacy rights. We know there is an investigation ongoing into the legal basis of an interference with privacy rights, yet it appears that additional legal steps are being taken by the State while that inquiry is ongoing. We do not have any information about the timescale for the commissioner's investigation - it would be helpful if we knew that - and we do not know what we might expect from it. However, certainly it is something of great significance. Simon McGarr might have further information about the history of it. As far as we know, it is the only inquiry of this type that has been initiated.