Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 19 February 2014
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions
Security and Surveillance Issues: Minister for Justice and Equality
6:05 pm
John Halligan (Waterford, Independent)
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Can the Minister state categorically whether such information exists that somebody else had bugged GSOC? Can he say if he was in possession of that information or is there a possibility that revealing that information would jeopardise a criminal investigation? Would the Minister agree that even if there is even a remote possibility that GSOC was bugged it does warrant a criminal investigation, not by a judge who was appointed in 1996 by a Fine Gael Government? I am not casting aspersions on that judge but I do not think people would select a judge in this instance. Why has the Minister continued to employ that-----