Justice Minister Alan Shatter is set to be questioned at the Oireachtas Oversight Committee today about claims he and the Taoiseach made about the Garda Ombudsman’s reporting obligations.

A timeline of the GSOC controversy

The security firm at the centre of the GSOC bugging crisis has claimed it was invited to Garda headquarters to demonstrate high tech surveillance equipment while it was conducting its confidential night-time security sweeps at the police ombudsman’s HQ.

The justice minister is under pressure to explain to an Oireachtas committee why he didn’t inform the Dáil of key details given to him by the Garda Ombudsman about its investigation into surveillance at its offices.

Three omissions from the minister’s Dáil speech raise serious questions, writes Deputy Political Editor Mary Regan

Callinan’s assurances fail to convince

What did Alan Shatter know before he went into the Dáil on Tuesday night?

Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore has said he is satisfied that no organ of the State was involved in surveillance of the garda ombudsman.

Justice Minister Alan Shatter has denied misleading the Dáil and insisted that the Garda ombudsman never told him of his suspicions that the office of GSOC was under surveillance.

Talking like he had just stepped out of a spy film, Garda Ombudsman Simon O’Brien lit up the Leinster House air with incendiary references to “threats”, “covert black-ops”, and “secret reports” swirling around his organisation.

The bugging of the Garda Siochána Ombudsman’s office could have been “lawfully” authorised, according to the State’s police watchdog.