Jim O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay South, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

After that I do not know whether a claim for privilege was made in respect of them, but we can deal with that matter at another time. The Minister has mentioned the process that was undertaken by the Department for the purpose of assessing the documents to be handed up to the tribunal. I ask him to describe that process. Does he know whether the e-mails of 15 May 2015 and 4 July 2015 were considered as part of the discovery process and was a decision then made not to hand them over, or is it the case that they were never spotted before and that they only recently come to light?

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