Ms Lois West:

On 11 April 2017, a request came in, request No. 210, from the Policing Authority, which sought further information relating to the homicide review. It followed on from some media coverage on 1 April which had created an interest in the review. Ms Galligan was in a meeting that morning, so I pulled together some of the documentation we already had. It was all at a very high level with no case-sensitive information; we never would have discussed case-sensitive information outside of the appropriate forums. I included some more up-to-date information about where we were in the review and did a synopsis of the very high-level data quality issues we were finding. The Policing Authority had requested that report by return on 11 April so I dutifully did the report and sent it up through the chain of command. The next day I queried whether the report had gone and was told that it had not gone yet but it would go now. There is a Policing Authority liaison office through which everything destined for the authority goes. That is for the necessary protections in relation to data, freedom of information and so on. I had no real reason subsequent to that to think that the report would not have gone to the Policing Authority.

There seemed to be some concern over that report. I am not sure what the concerns were. My understanding would be that there was perhaps a pre-meeting on 12 April to a private Policing Authority meeting that was due on 13 April. My understanding was that both of the reports were discussed at that pre-meeting. However, I was not present and could not say anything further about what decisions were taken or why.