Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire (Cork South Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The point has been made that it would not be of assistance to the commission or tribunal for there to be such a trawl which could potentially produce a large number of documents, yet the trawl that has taken place has produced two chains of emails which will be helpful as it is difficult to see that they would not be. I share the view expressed by Deputy Brophy that it is difficult to credit that statement.

As regards the correspondence on 4 July relating to media inquiries, would it be commonplace to have that level of communication and co-ordination between the Department and the Garda press office on such media queries?