Committee may call for probe into bugging

An Oireachtas committee may call for a commission of investigation into the "GSOC bugging saga" after it holds further sessions with the ombudsman and possibly with retired judge John Cooke.

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn, chairman of the Oireachtas Public Services Oversight Committee, said he didn’t want to pre-empt a decision of the committee, but said it could well make such a call.

The committee has invited GSOC and Judge Cooke to appear before it, but it is not yet known if the retired judge will accept the offer.