Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 21 March 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority
9:00 am
Ms Josephine Feehily:
We now accept that it was an honest attempt to give us a report. We had asked for a report with a start and an end, with a methodology and an outcome. It had the appearance of a report but when we got it, because of our experiences in April and the work we had been doing between April and September, we did not take it at face value. We did a compare-and-contrast exercise between the two sets of documentation and set it all out on a big spreadsheet, before sending it back to them with a thousand questions. We had many committee meetings and official engagements, on which Ms Hall can elaborate, in which we questioned every line of it before, in February this year, we were prepared to accept that we had got the information we wanted.