Mr. Tom O'Mahony:

I think that we may say, bearing in mind the sensitivity of this, that it would certainly have been mentioned at the monthly meeting with the Department. However, the Department would have responded that we were aware of the information and had already given it to the Department of Justice and Equality. In other words, both the RSA and ourselves knew that both parties had been given this information. We both knew what we had done with it. We had put it into what we were advised were the appropriate channels considering that neither the RSA or ourselves could directly hold gardaí to account for this. We needed to pass it on to those who could.