Clare Daly (Dublin North, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I am delighted the commission is present and that there are more members present now than the last time. As conditions in the committee room are difficult, with many people now wilting, I will put my questions. They may be disjointed, but I hope they will fill in a few gaps for me.

There is a certain contradiction between the idea that the commission had always intended to carry out this sweep - a matter of routine as the Taoiseach and the Minister for Justice and Equality called it - and the idea that it was sufficiently exceptional - as they called it too - that it should have been disclosed to the Minister under section 80(5) of the Garda Síochána Act 2005. Was the previous sweep disclosed to the Minister?