Top gardaí quizzed on use of private email for official business

Top-ranking gardaí have been asked by an Oireachtas Committee to outline their use of private email accounts to send or receive official garda documentation.

Labour’s Alan Kelly has asked assistant commissioners and chief superintendents for written replies on whether files from the force have been shared by Gmail or private accounts.

The concern was raised after gardaí previously failed to provide a report to the Policing Authority on a private email account used by former garda commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan.