Ms Josephine Feehily:

I can only answer that by referring to where we were last April. These actions took place last April, not last week. Last April, we were very alive to all of the issues. We had taken the initiative and had set up a meeting. Our records of the telephone exchange are very simple. The analysts understood that there was a meeting and they asked if they could come. The answer was that the authority had no difficulty with their attendance but that it was a matter for the Garda as to who was to attend. We are examining that engagement now through the lens of something that happened a couple of weeks ago. At the end of the day, the most important thing is that the homicide review proceeds. All of the authority's work has been to insist that the analysis service was fully involved and that it signed off on the material that came to us, and that happened. However, our capacity to engage must be open. We oversee the entire organisation, which includes the analysis service as well as the sworn side, and we have to take a view on its performance also. That is the reason we have to be very careful that we are not in a position of moderating in a situation that is clearly a matter for the Commissioner to resolve.