Mr. Simon O'Brien:

Let us be clear and get some clarity here. If one is given a report by a security firm which indicates the threats that were identified in the early stages - just after the security scan - one and I would say "Who would be the suspect group?". It is clear that there are many people out there who may want to get some information from our building. It could be any number of people such as journalists or maybe people who have complaints. I must, however - as unpalatable as it seems and as unpalatable as it is to hear - put within that potential suspect group a member of An Garda Síochána. It not an organisational issue. It could be a rogue member. We opened up the report because we believed the threshold had been made or the criminal investigation was made. We proceeded with a very healthy degree of scepticism. When that level of risk or threat is presented, you have to start deciding what you are going to do about that. What we were very clear about was that whatever we did we would do quickly, and whatever we could do we would just come back to try and get some form of clarity as to where the problems of these threats came from.