Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I am telling the Deputy something that he does not know. Mr. Justice Fennelly will chair the commission of investigation, which will look at all matters relevant to tape recordings of conversations and their retention, to the extent of which we are aware at this point but which appear to be growing in number.

During the course of today's Cabinet meeting, the Minister for Justice and Equality received a communication from the Prison Service indicating that on 26 March it became aware of an anomaly in its system whereby the conversations of a number of prisoners, 84 up to 28 March of this year, who had more than one solicitor in the system, had been inadvertently recorded as they were outside the restriction parameters. The Prison Service became aware of this and took immediate steps to rectify the situation. I have a asked the Minister for Justice and Equality for a report from the Prison Service on how this happened.

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