Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire (Cork South Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I am finishing on this. It seems Ms Galligan and Ms West felt let down. We can have differences of opinion on all of this. There is a clear distinction between those initial phone calls, which are information inquiries, etc., and the later correspondence. The later correspondence, which Ms Feehily stated is confidential, clearly was an escalation of a complaint and the detail of the concern to the Policing Authority. It appears from their testimony that something of that nature, not necessarily the detail of it, was communicated back to them. They appeared to be of the understanding that the Garda Síochána had become aware, not that inquiries had been made about the progress of matters or where things were but that this had been escalated to the Policing Authority, and it was clearly their sense that this was not information that would be shared or that they could be confident that knowledge would not come back to them through An Garda Síochána.