Phone-tapping claims date to 2000s

Allegations of phone-tapping for political reasons relate back to the early 2000s and are “not relevant to the current period” Enda kenny has told the Dáil.

The Taoiseach has faced further grillings over Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan’s handling of recent scandals at Templemore as well as the separate issue of phone tapping.

Raising media reports that “influence was exercised by a minister to tap the phone of a constituency team member of a sitting TD for political reasons,” Solidarity-PBP TD Richard Boyd Barrett said the allegations are “shocking” and must be dealt with.