Alan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour) | Oireachtas source

May I make some suggestions? We are caught for time, and I am not trying to be rude. I have great personal admiration for the work Ms Feehily has done previously, but I am not satisfied that the evidence that has been given is consistent on this issue. I am not satisfied that the Garda Commissioner's Gmail account was not being used. I am not satisfied that assistant commissioners and deputy commissioners have not been using Gmail for official Garda business either, and I ask Ms Feehily to look at that. I understand the point about the policy going forward. However, I want to know definitively and once and for all whether previous Commissioners, deputy commissioners or assistant commissioners have used Gmail for official Garda purposes in recent years, since Ms Feehily's inauguration. I am not happy with how this is being dealt with or the evidence that has been given. I know Ms Feehily pointed out what she said.

I referred before to a similarity regarding how evidence is being given to the Policing Authority regarding fixed notices, homicides and breath tests, juvenile liaison being next. I refer to the Crowe Horwarth, CH, report on breath tests and the fact that there was an admonishment of chief superintendents regarding the fact that they had not done anything. Then we were made aware that Assistant Commissioner Twomey had sent out a circular stating they were not to reply to Garda Commissioner O'Sullivan's request for information on this. When was the authority made aware of the circular's existence? Does-----