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:
One cannot be misled if one does not allow it. This is the point I was trying to make. We did not accept it and we told the Garda we did not accept it. We had a robust private meeting before the public session. We wrote to the Garda immediately after the meeting saying, "We take the strongest possible objection to this in terms of its tone, its content and its accuracy." I am not trying to be difficult. If I say we were misled, that sounds like we sat there passively and accepted what was presented. We did not do so and we rejected it in very direct terms.
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