Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 12 February 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions

Security and Protocol Issues: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission

5:05 pm

Mr. Simon O'Brien:

The Deputy is seeking clarity on whether we are now under surveillance. I have no idea. These suspicions have now been identified. Once one recognises that a risk of being under surveillance exists, through a telephone line or by visual means, one must mitigate the risk. One must up-spec one’s security either to accept or mitigate that risk. There could well be potential that somebody might be looking at our building. The identity of that person or agency is completely unspecific. The exact reason people undertake covert surveillance is so they will not alert one to the surveillance and be able to watch one for longer. What was the Deputy’s second question?