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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)
Jack Chambers: I thank Ms Feehily and Ms Hall for whom it has been a long morning. I will go through the submission and refer to a couple of things mentioned in it. It states, "Since late March 2017, we had intelligence" and also that the concerns of the two Garda analysts "were already well known to us before their contact". Ms Feehily also stated: "I can honestly say that there was very little of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)
Jack Chambers: It is still not on the record.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)
Jack Chambers: Ms Feehily has said the Policing Authority invited-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)
Jack Chambers: Ms Feehily has said the Policing Authority had a meeting about the intelligence received. Is that the meeting at which they were on the public record or are they separate meetings?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)
Jack Chambers: We are taking a step back. The people who were uncovering the evidence and actually investigating the whole process were the two people who contacted the Policing Authority. I am not aware of anyone else who was actively pursuing PULSE system files at the time, apart from the two people who were actively involved and came before the committee. On a weekly basis they were uncovering new...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)
Jack Chambers: They had intelligence which the Policing Authority did not probe in a greater way. Does Ms Feehily accept that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)
Jack Chambers: As such, the Policing Authority felt there was no need to probe it further.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)
Jack Chambers: Ms Feehily mentioned that the Policing Authority was trying to shine a light on issues. From my perspective and that of others on the committee, the people concerned had a torch of intelligence that they wanted to provide for the authority on which to engage. Their perception of the response of the authority is that they hit a brick wall. Despite the assurances given, there is a difference...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)
Jack Chambers: They have said they felt the Policing Authority let them down.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)
Jack Chambers: That is the same Garda delegation which, as Ms Feehily is aware, tried to get them to sign off on something retrospectively.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)
Jack Chambers: When did the authority become aware that pressure had been put on the analysts to sign off retrospectively on the report it had rejected?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)
Jack Chambers: The authority was aware.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)
Jack Chambers: That means the authority was aware of the pressure that was imposed on them.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)
Jack Chambers: I know, but that is the conclusion from what Ms Feehily has said. It is a big concern if the authority was aware of pressure that was imposed on the analysts to change, retrospectively, something the authority had rejected. Did the authority attempt to get clarification from them so that it could pursue the matter of the pressure that was brought to bear on them?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)
Jack Chambers: I want to ask Ms Feehily about what happened on 1 August 2017. The analysts were informed by a member of management that a member of the Policing Authority had made approaches to them. Who in the Policing Authority contacted and phoned Garda management about the approaches they made?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)
Jack Chambers: Is there a record of that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)
Jack Chambers: I am just asking, for the purposes of transparency, who contacted whom. Can we just have the names of the people involved?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)
Jack Chambers: Is there no record of that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)
Jack Chambers: It was referencing a contact over the phone from a member of the Policing Authority.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)
Jack Chambers: Let us take a step back to the time before the establishment of the Policing Authority and imagine this was a layer in the Department of Justice and Equality. If people approached the Department of Justice and Equality about a file that was submitted to it and about which they had concerns and someone from the Department contacted the Garda about the contact that had been made, there would...