Ms Josephine Feehily:

I apologise if I did not make it clear. Deputy Brophy asked if we felt misled at the time. What I meant to convey to Deputy Brophy was that at the time we did not believe there was a deliberate attempt to mislead. I acknowledged, however, that I could not put myself in the minds of the people who sent the material.

I felt at the time that the strong professional tensions that were clearly visible to us - and remember we had private meetings as well, not just with the analysis service but also on the policing side - were playing out somewhere else and that they simply were not ready. As it happens, we never received that report. The report that was given to us in April - or the document because I will not call it a report - has been accepted by the Garda Commissioner as inaccurate. The line has been drawn under it and we lost six months. Clearly, looking back, we did not get what we should have received. There is no doubt about that.