Ms Josephine Feehily:

Perhaps if I answer it this way, the final tranche of papers which came in 2011 actually came to me as it was in my term. I remember discussing it with an officer who has since retired after they had all been reviewed. He said to me there was nothing in that final dossier that we did not already have. Was I surprised in that context? I do not believe that I remember being surprised.

I have to repeat that the authorised officer’s scope was narrower than ours. We were now gone off on our own tracks. I referenced in my opening statement two one-off investigations where our High Court orders were opening up new avenues of inquiry for us. I do not have any sense that we were surprised, disappointed or anything. The information came and we followed it through. We developed our own project, our own methodologies and our own new sources with our powers which were broader than his.