Ms Josephine Feehily:

No, absolutely not. It was not disregarded. It landed on our desk, to use that phrase, and was examined. Every single item was examined. At the conclusion of that examination, because we had much more extensive powers than he had or has as an authorised officer and because we had already secured very large volumes of documentation, it did not add to the list of cases. It may have helped by validating or supplying some additional insights and information for those cases, but we had established the case base already.

The other piece I need to make clear regarding information - and I use the word "information" rather than to refer necessarily to books and documents - is that the officer was giving us information informally right through those years before the documentation arrived. We had information. We had a case base based on information, our research, High Court orders, High Court inspectors and so on. That case base was pretty well settled by the third quarter of 2003.