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

Photo of Jack ChambersJack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank Ms Feehily and Ms Hall for whom it has been a long morning.

I will go through the submission and refer to a couple of things mentioned in it. It states, "Since late March 2017, we had intelligence" and also that the concerns of the two Garda analysts "were already well known to us before their contact". Ms Feehily also stated: "I can honestly say that there was very little of substance in it about the review which we did not know or have grounds to believe since late March or early April of last year." In her statement she referred three or four times to evidence and intelligence she already had. She also mentioned that intelligence had been disclosed to her on the record for her to probe it. If the intelligence is on the record, surely she can enlighten us on what it is and from whom it came because it seems to contradict some of the evidence given by the two analysts? There is a contradiction and Ms Feehily must clarify the matter.

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