Garda watchdog HQ bugging claim

An Oireachtas committee is to contact the Garda Ombudsman today, calling on it to make a statement on dramatic reports its offices have been bugged.

Pádraig MacLochlainn, chairman of the Oireachtas Public Services Oversight Committee, said that Justice Minister Alan Shatter needed to examine the claims.

He told the Irish Examiner the reports placed a question mark over the force.