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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: What was of particular concern to Ms West and Ms Galligan is that on 11 April 2017, they had been asked to prepare a report in response to the Policing Authority request 210. They prepared that report but it was not sent to Ms Feehily. Is that correct? We can agree on that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: In response to Deputy Clare Daly, Ms Feehily said that the first time she became aware of that report was when they gave evidence about that. Is it not correct, however, that they brought to Ms Feehily's attention the fact that they had produced a report and that it had not been sent to her in a letter dated 30 June 2017?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: The answer Ms Feehily gave Deputy Clare Daly was that the first time the Policing Authority heard that they had prepared a report for the Policing Authority it was not sent to the authority. The first time Ms Feehily heard of that was when they gave evidence two weeks ago.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: For her own sake, I believe Ms Feehily is incorrect in stating that the first time she became aware was when she gave evidence. I note the point she is making, which is that if it is contained within the letter of 30 June, Ms Feehily is not permitted to disclose that but I would have thought that fact is not a fact of confidentiality.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: I believe Ms Feehily also had a meeting on 13 April with the policing strategy and performance committee.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: At that meeting, did Ms Feehily raise the fact that the deputy head who was carrying out this review had contacted this office and was concerned about the manner in which the review was being conducted?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: I would like to move on at this point to the public meeting of 27 April. In her opening statement, Ms Feehily said that by late March or early April there was very little of substance in what was stated by Ms West and Ms Galligan regarding the review of which the Policing Authority was not aware at that stage. Did Ms Feehily not think it appropriate to raise with members of An Garda...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: I have reviewed the video of the proceedings of the meeting of 27 April and the impression I got was that the Garda was trying to present to the Policing Authority that the report had been completed, that it was sorry the authority had only received it late the night before, that matters had been resolved, that there were a number of recommendations that needed to be implemented and that it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: I did not. Much of the time when Ms Feehily was being asked about whether she was misled, she was concentrating on the motivation of An Garda Síochána. Leaving aside whether the Garda intended to mislead the authority, does Ms Feehily accept as a fact that the authority was misled at that meeting on 27 April?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: Had Ms Feehily been naive and accepted what was said, would she have been misled?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: When I asked Dr. Singh whether he had concerns about the accuracy of the information that was given to the authority, his response was that he did have concerns in that regard. We know that Ms West and Ms Galligan also had concerns about it because, as mentioned by Ms Feehily, they wrote the letter of 11 May subsequent to that. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: Am I correct that Ms Feehily had sight of that letter on 12 May?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: What was Ms Feehily's response to it? Did it give rise to further concern on her part?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: Can I take it from Ms Feehily's response that, on reading the letter of 11 May on 12 May, there was nothing new in it for her?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: Ms Feehily is a person for whom I have a lot of admiration. She is not a person who holds back if she feels she is being misled. If she knew all of this at the meeting of 27 April, why did she allow the Garda to attempt to mislead the Policing Authority?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: The authority received the letter from Ms West on 12 May and on 16 May, she again phones the Policing Authority. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: What note does the witness have of what Ms West said to the Policing Authority on that occasion?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: At this stage the authority has received two phone calls from her and has a copy of a five page letter, dated 11 May. Did no one in the Policing Authority think maybe they should meet this person?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: The Policing Authority then sent a letter on 24 May to the Garda Commissioner. This is in the helpful timeline that Ms Feehily provided to the committee yesterday. The Policing Authority stated that it wanted a response and four bullet points were set out. One of them was a Sunday Timesarticle with a headline, "Garda analyst washes hands of figures fiasco". Why did the authority not put...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: We move on then and the next public meeting the authority had with the Garda Síochána was on 29 June 2017. At that stage, the authority knew an awful lot, in terms of the information it got from a variety of sources, including the five page letter of 11 May and the concerns expressed in the phone calls. At that meeting, it was presented to the witness, again by the representatives...