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:
Meeting them separately would not have arisen for the reasons I mentioned to do with conflict. As I said in my remarks earlier, looking back with the benefit of what we now know, the one step we could have taken, as the Chairman has referenced, would have been to ask that they be included and, like yourselves, if they were then excluded, we would then perhaps have been able to draw the same conclusion the Chairman drew in his remarks a moment ago. I will not go back over the conflict risks of meeting one group and then another and finding ourselves in the middle.
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