The Morris tribunal remained in private session yesterday to consider documents which the Garda Commissioner is claiming are privileged.
The commissioner, Mr Pat Byrne, through his counsel, will make submissions to the effect that certain Garda documents sought in discovery orders by the tribunal should remain privileged and never be made public.
The in-camera hearing began after Ms Adrienne McGlinchey on Wednesday ended 5½ days of evidence during which she denied that she was an IRA informer or a member of any illegal organisation.
The tribunal chairman, Mr Justice Morris, said the private session was necessary because consideration had to be given to the documents in respect of which privilege was claimed by the commissioner.
The only people allowed to be present for the evidence and legal argument concerning these documents are tribunal officials who have signed confidentiality undertakings, tribunal counsel and solicitors, the commissioner and Garda counsel and solicitors, Ms McGlinchey, Supt Kevin Lennon, Det Garda Noel McMahon and their legal representatives.
The tribunal is dealing with the first module, which concerns complaints that some gardaí in Co Donegal may have been involved in hoax explosives and bomb-making equipment finds, particularly in 1993 and 1994.
Allegations were made by a number of persons that some members of the Garda planted subversive paraphernalia and later purported to discover it or arrange for it to be found by third parties.
Ms McGlinchey claimed that Det Garda McMahon had blackmailed her into planting bullets, fertiliser and explosives at a number of locations for other gardaí to find, and that Supt Lennon was also involved.
Both men have denied the allegations.