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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Guerin Report: Department of Justice and Equality (28 May 2014)
Michael McNamara: I am sorry, he saw the advices but not the copy of the letter seeking the advices. Why were those advices sought in the first instance?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Guerin Report: Department of Justice and Equality (28 May 2014)
Michael McNamara: Is that an error in Mr. Guerin's report?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Guerin Report: Department of Justice and Equality (28 May 2014)
Michael McNamara: Is Mr. Purcell in a position to put on the record the entire letter received from the Attorney General's office?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Guerin Report: Department of Justice and Equality (28 May 2014)
Michael McNamara: I apologise.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Guerin Report: Department of Justice and Equality (28 May 2014)
Michael McNamara: So the answer is "No", Mr. Purcell is not in a position to put the entire-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Guerin Report: Department of Justice and Equality (28 May 2014)
Michael McNamara: Presumably it will be published then.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Guerin Report: Department of Justice and Equality (28 May 2014)
Michael McNamara: Was the Minister immediately furnished with the letter of 18 December 2013 from the Attorney General's office?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Guerin Report: Department of Justice and Equality (28 May 2014)
Michael McNamara: Mr. Purcell said the Minister was not immediately furnished with the letter of 18 December. When was he furnished with the letter?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Guerin Report: Department of Justice and Equality (28 May 2014)
Michael McNamara: He might never have received the letter.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Guerin Report: Department of Justice and Equality (28 May 2014)
Michael McNamara: Mr. Purcell referred to it as the letter from the Attorney General's office. Was it from the Attorney General or from an official in the office?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Guerin Report: Department of Justice and Equality (28 May 2014)
Michael McNamara: Before that letter from the Attorney General's office, what materials were furnished to that office at the time the advices were sought and what, if any, steps were advised to be taken on foot of that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Guerin Report: Department of Justice and Equality (28 May 2014)
Michael McNamara: This is all about whether or not there was a statutory inquiry and whether he delayed in holding a statutory inquiry. Was advice ever given that there should have been a statutory inquiry?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Guerin Report: Department of Justice and Equality (28 May 2014)
Michael McNamara: Yes, prior to the letter of 18 December, which Mr. Purcell said was not furnished to the Minister.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Guerin Report: Department of Justice and Equality (28 May 2014)
Michael McNamara: I greatly appreciate Mr. Purcell's indulgence.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Guerin Report: Department of Justice and Equality (28 May 2014)
Michael McNamara: It is also frustrating for me as a public representative that I could not be here for the entire meeting. There were exceptional circumstances.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Guerin Report: Department of Justice and Equality (28 May 2014)
Michael McNamara: Mr. Purcell said that after Christmas we were into the whole crisis. Was the letter of 26 February 2013, which is referenced in paragraph 19.80, furnished to the former Minister for Justice and Equality?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Guerin Report: Department of Justice and Equality (28 May 2014)
Michael McNamara: I appreciate that Mr. Purcell dealt with this earlier and has very kindly dealt with it again just now. He said that the letter of 18 December was not furnished to the Minister but specifically, was the letter of 26 February furnished to the Minister at the time?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Guerin Report: Department of Justice and Equality (28 May 2014)
Michael McNamara: I do not know how Departments operate and this meeting is providing an interesting insight into that. Is it normal that such letters would not be furnished to a Minister in the context of the volume of correspondence coming through? Is it normal that letters from the Attorney General or the Garda Commissioner would not be furnished to the Minister?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Guerin Report: Department of Justice and Equality (28 May 2014)
Michael McNamara: Mr. Purcell mentioned oral briefings which is interesting because Mr. Guerin's report focuses very much on written evidence, when letters and written files were furnished and so forth. Is much of this dealt with by way of oral discussion and briefings rather than extensively written instructions, correspondence and so forth?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Guerin Report: Department of Justice and Equality (28 May 2014)
Michael McNamara: In view of that context and the fact that Mr. Purcell has repeatedly reiterated that the Department and the former Minister were dealing with Sergeant McCabe's allegations at the same time as the fixed charge and penalty points issue, does he think it is accurate to state that the Department or the former Minister did not take seriously Sergeant McCabe's allegations?