Comreg set for talks over Morris recommendation

THE communications regulator is to hold discussions with the Morris Tribunal and the Department of Justice regarding recommendations made in the second Morris report.

The report called on the regulator, Comreg, to make it obligatory for phone companies to provide information to gardaí within five days of a request and one day in emergencies.

"The tribunal recommends that ... Comreg should make it a condition of all future licences that a response should be made to garda queries in relation to fixed and mobile phone communications within a maximum period of five working days.