Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Resources are a large constituent element of when things can happen, with the other element being prioritisation. It is the responsibility of the management of a Department, which usually comes down to the Minister at some stage. Why was this resource not prioritised, given that we are talking about a report on tax evasion and the damage that would be done to the resources of the State?

It seems the Minister advises that all matters contained in the statement are covered by the document already submitted to relevant authorities. We know there was a delay in the research of the document, so that judgment of content could not have been made before the document was researched. Even at that stage, surely it is up to a court and judge to decide the relevance of a document sought by the Garda.