Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I have a real problem with that answer. Mr. Harris referred to a draft interim report but we thought we were considering an interim report. The Policing Authority may have been under the impression it was scrutinising an interim report. However, Mr. Harris has confirmed it received a four-page letter, as did the committee, which contains certain figures. I asked Mr. Harris the length of the interim report. He stated it is a draft report and he is not happy with it. Is it not contradictory for Mr. Harris to bring a letter to the Policing Authority as a basis for it to ask a few questions, but keep the full interim report from it? As Mr. Harris stated he is very confident of the figures but is holding back on their publication until he is absolutely sure of them, should he not have waited for the interim report and given that to the Policing Authority? We now know it did not receive the interim report.