Ms Oonagh McPhillips:

It would have been a judgment call. As my colleague has said, the terms of reference do not specifically go to this issue. In retrospect, if we had them, we would have had to make a call. I think we probably would have erred on the side of caution. Lots of comments have been made in the past week, for instance, that we could merely put people's names into a database and fire all that stuff down to the tribunal. I am not sure that would help the tribunal in its onerous work. Obviously, over the past five years there has been an accumulation of documents in the Department, some of which is relevant and some of which is not relevant. It is obviously a judgment call. We did not have them. Therefore, that judgment call did not arise.