Ms Helen Dixon:

As a starting point, if we look at co-operation with the process, there was co-operation with the process in that the Department acknowledged the commencement of the investigation, it assigned a correspondent with the investigators at the DPC and, notwithstanding that it sought extensions, and the terms in which it sought those extensions, it did make its submissions and it did respond and engage. The Department co-operated with the process. Deputy Cullinane asked if there was pushback. In terms of the response the Department has published to the report and the responses the Deputy can see reflected in the final report, it clearly is resistant to the legal analysis and the findings of the Data Protection Commission. There is little doubt about that.