This just in.
Justice Niall Fennelly has published his interim report which expresses dismay at the volume of work (20 million telephone calls may have been taped) and asks for more time, staff and money…
To continue to investigate the installation, operation, maintenance, repair, removal and replacement of telephone systems in certain Garda Stations.
To continue to investigate the use, reporting, retention and destruction of telephone recordings between 1980 and 2013.
To continue to investigate the level of knowledge of the existence, operation and use of telephone recording systems in An Garda Siochana.
To examine and consider a wide range of areas of law relevant to the activity of An Garda Siochana in recording telephone calls to and from Garda Stations including national and European legislation and conventions.
To continue to investigate the level of knowledge of the existence, operation and use of telephone recording systems within the Office of the Minister Justice and Equality; the Department of Justice and Equality; the Office of the Attorney General; the Chief State Solicitor’s’s Office; the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions; the office of the Data Protection Commissioner and the Garda Siochana Ombudsman Commission.
To continue to investigate whether calls recorded in Bandon [Co Cork] Garda Station [During the Sophie Du Plantier murder investigation] in conjunction with other acts or events disclose evidence of unlawful or improper behaviour.
There is a further term of reference at l(p) which requires the Commission to report on any matters that arises from the Report of the Inspector of Prisons, Judge Michael Reilly into all circumstances surrounding the recording of telephone conversations between prisoners and their solicitors which appear to require further investigation in the public interest.
More to follow.
Read the full interim report here
Previously: Fennelly Report: The Digested Read
additional Junior Counsel coming in at €104000 a skull? Nice!
X9 months work per skull
9 months for openers. We all know these things are like signing blank cheques.
Is that really salary though or does that cover overhead, employer’s PRSI contribution, etc.?
BOOO! I prefer it when it’s released at 5.45 pm, in an unsearchable format, and Enda can waffle on the news knowing no one’s had the chance to read it.
He wouldn’t do that, would he?
Move along….nothing to see here.
Who ordered it done, and who knew at Police and Political levels, who had access
to the material recorded, who installed the equipment, maintained it, made the
physcical wire connections from the recoders to the phone lines through impedance
matching units, who authorised the purchase of the multi track tape recorder units both in the Dept of Justice and the Gardai and was the equipment updated with advent of digital recoding and was software purchased to digitally search recodings at high speed in order to eliminate the deployment of extra personel to listen to
the material…..a lot done a hell of a lot more to do….oh has Mr Fennelly digitised
the audio material still on tape to facilitate a more thorough search to establish
who were those dealing with the Gardai that may have been comprimised.
“and was the equipment updated with advent of digital recording”
..bit late to the story Ted?
Who is “Ted”…..?
Mr Justice Fennelly’s name is Nial not Niall.
Dreadful irrelevant but interesting nonsense
Deal with it now and just move on
I don’t see how you can consider the below to be irrelevant?
“the recording of telephone conversations between prisoners and their solicitors which appear to require further investigation in the public interest.”
Why throw more money and time at this ‘inquiry’ when the findings of previous ‘inquiries’ have yet to be acted upon?