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
Ms Oonagh McPhillips:
These are matters on which the tribunal may take a view and I do not propose to trespass into them. As the Senator will be aware, the Government is appointing a person to conduct an external review. Obviously, if there are lessons to be learned from it, we will apply them.
On the core point, it is not that we had the emails. We did not look at the emails and say, "That is not relevant." We did not have the emails when the original trawl was made.
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