Mr. Tony O'Brien:

Deputies Wallace and Daly. The question was asked by Deputy Daly. As a result of the preparations to answer the question of the committee, the person to whom Deputy Kelly referred, Mr. Pat Healy, spoke to me of his concerns that these reports would be published, so that we could give fuller answers; and that we were feeling constrained in our engagements with the Oireachtas and Ministers by being unable to publish. It was for that reason that I asked him to initiate a process of dialogue with the Garda Síochana to do one of two things: ideally to get us into a position of publication, or at least to be clear why we could not publish. That was the trigger.