Ms Josephine Feehily:

We treated the material we received from the analysts in confidence as part of the intelligence which I described earlier and which we also treat in confidence. We pursued all of the concerns by insisting right up to Garda Commissioner level during July and August that we would accept nothing on this topic unless it was fully signed off by the analysts, which is why I reflected earlier that perhaps our pressure may have added to the pressure on them inadvertently. That is how we dealt with their concerns. When we could not deal with them directly, we dealt with them by treating it as intelligence and it informed our work.