Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

-----to work on the terms of reference. It is not just a question of the Minister for Justice and Equality happening to be the Minister with responsibility for personally producing terms of reference for the High Court judge. These are advised by the Attorney General. The terms of reference will be published today and the Minister is appearing before the committee today. I expect members may want to discuss this point with him. The opportunity in the terms of reference will be to review and to assess the evidence, if any, of the security breach within the GSOC office, to establish any facts in respect of that and to make recommendations regarding measures to be taken to improve the existing security arrangements at the GSOC offices for the purposes of addressing risks to the data and communication systems in place. All of this will be in public and will be discussed and the judge to be named will report back within eight weeks. I am sure Members accept the involvement of a High Court judge is completely objective and completely independent-----

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