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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Functioning of the Department of Justice and Equality: Department of Justice and Equality (6 Dec 2017)
Jack Chambers: Who were the people dealing with the discovery?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Functioning of the Department of Justice and Equality: Department of Justice and Equality (6 Dec 2017)
Jack Chambers: And Mr. O'Callaghan was dealing with the discovery.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Functioning of the Department of Justice and Equality: Department of Justice and Equality (6 Dec 2017)
Jack Chambers: Mr. O'Callaghan is not sure if a general trawl was discussed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Functioning of the Department of Justice and Equality: Department of Justice and Equality (6 Dec 2017)
Jack Chambers: If Mr. O'Callaghan was heading the division, would he not know that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Functioning of the Department of Justice and Equality: Department of Justice and Equality (6 Dec 2017)
Jack Chambers: Did they know about the documents we have recently seen?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Functioning of the Department of Justice and Equality: Department of Justice and Equality (6 Dec 2017)
Jack Chambers: I do not want to talk about it. That is fine. I am discovering what happened in the past. I do not want to discuss the process to which Ms McPhillips referred. To return to the specific matter, Mr. O'Callaghan said he was not sure if there had been a general trawl.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Functioning of the Department of Justice and Equality: Department of Justice and Equality (6 Dec 2017)
Jack Chambers: And Mr. O'Callaghan is not sure if there was an electronic trawl of documents.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Functioning of the Department of Justice and Equality: Department of Justice and Equality (6 Dec 2017)
Jack Chambers: Would Mr. O'Callaghan agree that a discovery process should involve going beyond the scope of the knowledge of the people in a particular unit and that they probably should have gone beyond what they thought they knew? Would he agree that the Department would have been more prudent if it had gone beyond what its officials thought that they knew for the discovery process?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Functioning of the Department of Justice and Equality: Department of Justice and Equality (6 Dec 2017)
Jack Chambers: Does Ms McPhillips, as the head of the Department, have a view-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Functioning of the Department of Justice and Equality: Department of Justice and Equality (6 Dec 2017)
Jack Chambers: Should the tribunal not be the filter for the documents rather than the Department?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Functioning of the Department of Justice and Equality: Department of Justice and Equality (6 Dec 2017)
Jack Chambers: Based on the current situation, could it be the case that, in the context of previous tribunals, some documents were not submitted?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Functioning of the Department of Justice and Equality: Department of Justice and Equality (6 Dec 2017)
Jack Chambers: Why did the Department send the documents to the tribunal if Ms McPhillips feels she fully complied with discovery orders? What was the purpose of sending them? Why did the Department not stand by its original contention that it fully complied? Why did Ms McPhillips not refuse to send these subsequent documents if they were not relevant to the work of the tribunal?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Functioning of the Department of Justice and Equality: Department of Justice and Equality (6 Dec 2017)
Jack Chambers: I want to discuss some of the emails that were sent. Would Ms McPhillips agree that the Minister's contention that she had no awareness of the legal strategy was incorrect and in fact, the repeated emails to her, that were noted by her officials, displayed awareness?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Functioning of the Department of Justice and Equality: Department of Justice and Equality (6 Dec 2017)
Jack Chambers: Okay, I will address it in a different context. In terms of the governance arrangement between the Department of Justice and Equality and An Garda Síochána, would it be a typical case that the Department would have its media strategy informed by An Garda Síochána?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Functioning of the Department of Justice and Equality: Department of Justice and Equality (6 Dec 2017)
Jack Chambers: Yes. We know that the media strategy, as noted by the Minister, was submitted from information from An Garda Síochána.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Functioning of the Department of Justice and Equality: Department of Justice and Equality (6 Dec 2017)
Jack Chambers: What is the governance arrangement for that flow? Will Ms McPhillips describe to the committee the-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Functioning of the Department of Justice and Equality: Department of Justice and Equality (6 Dec 2017)
Jack Chambers: As part of the Toland report and some of the information submitted by Ms McPhillips, we know there is a framework of governance between the Minister and the Department of Justice and Equality and An Garda Síochána. Will Ms McPhillips give me information on how that framework operates?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Functioning of the Department of Justice and Equality: Department of Justice and Equality (6 Dec 2017)
Jack Chambers: To whom is it not conveyed?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Functioning of the Department of Justice and Equality: Department of Justice and Equality (6 Dec 2017)
Jack Chambers: Ms McPhillips states it was correct that the Minister for Justice and Equality should have no involvement in the matter. If she should not have had any involvement in the matter, why was the information given to her?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Functioning of the Department of Justice and Equality: Department of Justice and Equality (6 Dec 2017)
Jack Chambers: In the Toland report, it is stated that there is a deferential relationships and a passive approach between the Department of Justice and Equality and An Garda Síochána. Does Ms McPhillips agree with that statement?