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
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire (Cork South Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
It seems there is something missing here or something, perhaps, I am not understanding. In the phone calls which Ms Feehily has described and has detailed to us, it sounds as though the sensitive details of this were not necessarily discussed. As I say, there is clearly a distinction between official correspondence to the Garda commission and then across to the Policing Authority and the letter that was sent to the Policing Authority but the point at which Ms West was told that the Policing Authority - this is how it was put - "was aware of her approaches" was on 1 August, which is a considerable period after 11 May. Is there any possibility that there was any indication from the Policing Authority to An Garda Síochána that there was direct contact between Ms Galligan and Ms West and the Policing Authority? Was that ever conveyed to An Garda Síochána?
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