Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Under the law, a right to privacy is given up when a 999 call is made, and one can understand that. The process of having conversations and calls recorded in a routine fashion in many stations around the country, which began back in the 1980s, ceased in November of last year on the instructions of the then Garda Commissioner and by his letter to the Department of Justice and Equality. That is an important point to make for members of the public who can feel free to make calls of a routine nature to Garda stations around the country in the knowledge that they are not now being recorded centrally or locally.

The other points Deputy Donnelly mentioned have to be sorted out, and they will be sorted out. It just shows one the scale of what needs to be done in terms of our justice system and our Garda Síochána force so that everybody understands the level of competency and professionalism it has. I get material across my desk and sometimes it is difficult to decipher what to do with it. The scale of charge can be grossly excessive in some cases but this is what we have to deal with, and this is what we will deal with.

The Minister, Deputy Shatter, is not liked by the Judiciary, he is not liked by the legal profession-----

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