Ms Nóirín O'Sullivan:

The request was received on 25 October 2016. I will have to confer with my colleague, Mr. Nugent, about what day of the week that was. On Tuesday, 26 October that correspondence was acknowledged by my staff and Mr. Barrett was informed that it had gone to the chief administrative officer, his line manager, to be dealt with. That office had previously dealt with the matter. On 26 October, the letter was also sent to the chief administrative officer to address it. So that is one piece of correspondence.

The next piece of correspondence was on 28 October - three days later, which would have been Friday of a bank holiday weekend, when the second piece of correspondence was received from Mr. Barrett.