Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 6 December 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Functioning of the Department of Justice and Equality: Department of Justice and Equality

9:00 am

Mr. John O'Callaghan:

To be fair, the Secretary General has set out the position. There are, conceivably, tens of thousands of documents that could, to one extent or another, deal with or refer to individuals or cases that relate to people involved in the tribunal. To the best of our knowledge, most of them have nothing to do with the tribunal. Most of it is stuff that has already been gone through by various previous commissions. The tribunal is looking at net points as regards what happened at the commission and other such matters. The Secretary General is right. We discovered what we were asked to discover. We discovered other things that we knew were directly relevant. As she said, in the past few weeks we uncovered a couple of emails which have been provided. Even at this stage, it would not be our view that we should discover to the tribunal every single document in the Department related to anybody remotely connected to the tribunal.

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