The Justice Minister says he has confidence in the members of the Garda Siochana Ombudsman Commission.
Alan Shatter is also again dismissing calls for an independent inquiry into the alleged bugging of the GSOC headquarters.
In a television interview last night he suggested that the GSOC chairman Simon O'Brien's evidence to an Oireachtas Committee this week was confused and contradictory.
Today Minister Shatter says the Garda watchdog and its members have his backing:
