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:

As I indicated in my opening remarks, the fact that the analysts were in touch with the authority was not a matter that was confidential. It was generally known and so the telephone call could have been made by anyone, including me. It was a matter that was generally known. It was certainly something that I was impressing on a range of people during July and August of last year because I was extremely concerned that no progress was being made to bring us a report. I was impressing upon a range of people, including at Commissioner level, that we were alive to the disquiet within the analysis service and that we would not accept a report unless it could be established to our satisfaction that it had been fully signed off by the analysis service. It may have been anybody. It may have been me.

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