Following what Senator Bacik said regarding the so-called bugging scandal, I am none the wiser after the various statements in the last couple of days. I still have concerns. Were these people bugged or not? According to the spokesman, Mr. Kieran FitzGerald, last night, the chances of these anomalies being benign were remote to zero. That clearly indicates there is an issue. There is also the issue that it appears this sweep was not routine. The GSOC does not routinely check its offices or routinely have such security checks. There was a series of events or incidents which influenced and determined the GSOC to seek out an independent security firm, Verrimus, from the UK to check this out.

There was none.

I am sure Senator Coghlan will regale us with his wisdom in due course.

I will do my best.

There are questions to be answered. To correct something that was said yesterday, Senator Jim D'Arcy must have misunderstood me when he implied that I was trying to implicate the Garda in some way - far from it. I am sure the Garda had nothing to do with it and I wish to have the Garda completely vindicated in this regard. However, clearly there is something here and we must find out about it. Questions must be answered and I do not believe the Minister is treating it with the level of seriousness it requires.

Second, I agree with Senator Darragh O'Brien regarding a debate on Irish Water.

I am very concerned about today's headlines, as Mr. Tierney has indicated that the repair of the network could cost up to €10 billion. That is hardly surprising with the kind of costings and overheads he seems to think are reasonable to create in a bonus-led culture. I am concerned that somebody flippantly presiding over these salaries and who gets all his buddies from the local authorities to come in, although they already have pensions from the State, is now saying this will cost €10 billion. Before we set up Irish Water, the correct action would have been for each local authority to do an audit of what the costs would be in certain locations. This could have been done with local contractors. Instead, a major multinational will be engaged to fix the network at a cost of €10 billion or €15 billion, instead of creating employment in national or indigenous companies.