Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 7 April 2022

Public Accounts Committee

2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 41 - Policing Authority

9:30 am

Ms Helen Hall:

This is the second phase that I alluded to when I was talking to Deputy Carthy earlier. There were some legal impediments to Mr. Penman listening to those calls. That fact is in the public domain. We have said this already. We are hopeful now that that will happen towards the end of May. That is the second phase and that will happen. The Garda is very positive about allowing that to happen. We are positive that is should happen but there are some steps that need to be taken. A lot of that hinges on data protection and assuring the privacy of the individuals that one might be listening to. That will happen but it has not happened yet.

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