Mr. Seamus McCarthy:

Obviously, this is a classic pass-the-parcel situation. I have not seen the information that has been provided to the committee. It sounds from the description as though it is similar to the material we received. As I said in my report, we do not have the power to investigate any allegations of illegality or wrongdoing. We did not deal with that in the examination or in the report. We have also written to the Data Protection Commissioner to ask for his advice on what we should do now with the material. Obviously, we have to retain certain information, such as working papers, in support of the report we presented. We need to destroy or return to the Garda Commissioner any information that is not relevant to that.