International priorities dictated a gaping hole in the collection of far-right intelligence reports, according to the lead communications spy agency. The Royal Commission of inquiry heard that the Government Security Communications Bureau got 7526 intelligence reports about terrorism and violent fanaticism in a three-month period in late 2018-19. But not a single one was about right-wing extremism. This "was not the result of the GCSB's own intelligence collection settings", the bureau's Director-General Andrew Hampton told RNZ in a statement. "The intelligence reporting GCSB receives from its international Signals intelligence partners is what those agencies collect themselves based on their own priorities."