John Brady (Wicklow, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I will make a final point. Last week, the Minister misled the committee on why he deleted text messages. He stated it was for data storage reasons but that quickly changed to his phone being hacked. I have specific questions on that alleged phone hacking, which I deem to be a potential national security breach. Why was that not communicated to the Taoiseach? There is national Cabinet confidentiality here and the Minister did not communicate that to the Taoiseach. Why was it not communicated to the Data Protection Commissioner or the data protection officer within the Department?