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 guess we knew from our own sources probably early in April that a document was being prepared. We had a commitment that we would receive the document in advance of the April meeting. The piece of paper we received the night before the meeting did not measure up to what we had been led to expect. We knew that what we received on the night beforehand was inadequate, incomplete and, as we said in our letter to the Garda Commissioner, inaccurate. We did not like its tone. We knew straight away that there was stuff we had not received. I am trying to say that at that moment there was strong evidence available to us of unresolved matters within the Garda. I do not wish to assume it was misleading. They might simply have not been ready.
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