Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 21 March 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority
9:00 am
Ms Josephine Feehily:
I do not want to say that. I read their evidence carefully over the weekend. I think that at no point did they say that, rather I think what they said was that a meeting simply did not occur. They were careful in how they represented the engagement with us. All I am saying is that from our point of view we believe that in the first two instances in response to their telephone contact they received responses, assurances and thanks. Their subsequent correspondence was of an entirely different nature, entirely confidential, and was treated as such. They were not prepared to allow us to use their subsequent correspondence which left us with a very significant dilemma and so we respected their confidence and thanked them again.
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