In the light of the information revealed in the Anglo Irish Bank tapes, what legislation does the Government intend to put in place to protect tapes of conversations in the other covered financial institutions?

Has legislation been promised?

No, but the Minister, Deputy Pat Rabbitte, has been dealing with elements of cybersecurity. Clearly, this kind of information is available in banks-----

The Minister would want to call in the Criminal Assets Bureau to deal with the fellows whose conversations were taped.

I mean banks have data in lots of places and facilities. In so far as legislation is concerned, I mentioned earlier that we were processing the Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill 2013, which will obviously be relevant in this regard. The tapes were secured by the Garda, on foot of warrants, arising from information given to the force. They were transmitted from Anglo Irish Bank directly to the Garda four years ago.

I just want to provide clarification.

There is no clarification.

It is important. I reckon that there is a need for emergency legislation to protect information contained in other recordings made in some of the other financial institutions.

Why is that, Timmy?

Has the Government given any consideration to that matter?

The Minister, Deputy Alan Shatter, has been dealing with this complex and technical issue at European level and at home. It was discussed at the relevant Council of Ministers meetings in the past few weeks.