Ms Moyagh Murdock:

I add to that as I spoke to Mr. Noel Brett yesterday to clarify communications and ensure there was no other correspondence in the loop which we might have missed. I asked if there had been anybody else corresponded with. Mr. Brett made the point there was not. Once he received the report from the whistleblower, Sergeant Maurice McCabe, he communicated with GSOC and the Comptroller and Auditor General. After that, he did not discuss the issue with any other party as he felt it would have been entirely inappropriate to raise it with anybody else outside that audience. That is probably why there is no direct correspondence to the Department and the Minister. I had that question from the committee before the meeting, but I was thinking in the context of An Garda Síochána if there was any other correspondence. The same reason would apply to anybody else outside the GSOC body and the Comptroller and Auditor General. Once the report had been submitted and the investigations initiated, Mr. Noel Brett did not discuss it with anybody else.