Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I am agreeing because I have just checked who the letter came from. The note we have before us obviously did not come from the acting commissioner because Ms Nóirín O'Sullivan was Commissioner on 4 August when we received it. I am told the note we have received has come from the office of Joe Nugent, the chief administrative officer. We are now in the situation that the deputy commissioner, who is now the acting commissioner, gave a formal commitment in public to the Committee of Public Accounts, but we now have the office of the chief administrative officer writing to us to say something completely different. As far as I am concerned, I am now seeing a direct conflict between what I will call the civilian side of An Garda Síochána in how it is dealing with the committee and how the acting commissioner, who was the deputy commissioner-----