Government Under Pressure Over Garda Gate
The Government is coming under pressure to answer questions about the timing of Garda Gate. The call has come from the Opposition after a Cork minister confirmed that phone conversations were recorded digitally at Garda stations after 2008. According to Simon Coveney, 2 thousand 4 hundred physical tape recordings exist of phone calls prior to that date, but digital recordings were made after that until the practice was stopped last year. He says he doesn't know how many were recorded after 2008, or who was listening to them. Click the play button above to hear Minister Coveney explain that tapes are in the process of being handed over in an ongoing court case - and he says some of the detail on those recordings is 'very explosive':
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