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
Jack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
Agencies of the Department are connected to the correspondence relevant to the terms of reference, which were subsequently discovered through parliamentary questions and which have been disclosed to the tribunal. Clearly, there is a contradiction regarding the discovery orders. Ms McPhillips is stating full compliance with something that she cannot disclose. That is a matter of transparency. How can we pursue the matter of full compliance if Ms McPhillips will not give us the very discovery order to which she is referring? We cannot take a view on that because the obfuscation and lack of clarity only results in further questions about the integrity of the original statement.
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