‘I have been transparent with all of this, I have not held any information back’ - Paula Bradshaw - video Dailymotion

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00:00Because I feel that you've tried to sweep this issue under the carpet.

00:03But there's nothing to sweep under the carpet. I have been transparent with all of this.

00:09I have not held any information back.

00:13Where's the email trail? So we've got...

00:14Well that was not my doing and I have asked the Assistant Clerk why that was in terms

00:21of... I had nothing to do... I have no role in terms of what goes out in the committee

00:25packs. No role at all.

00:27You will remember two weeks ago that I did ask for the timestamp.

00:30The Clerk does not work to me. I do not see the information for it sent out. He worked

00:35to this committee. So the fact that it went out without a date stamp has nothing to do

00:40with me.

00:41Well as Chair of this committee will you assure that the information has been requested?

00:44I asked the Clerk at the meeting two weeks ago to ensure that happened and I don't know

00:49why that hasn't happened. He's not here today. He has not been in work for a number of days.

00:53I have not had an opportunity since the committee pack came out to ask him why that was the

00:57case.

00:58Well will you ensure that for next week's papers, once again reiterate that's in it?

01:04Yes.

01:05All the correspondence that has taken place between yourself, the DALO, yourself and...

01:09I never engage with the DALO. I never engage with the First Minister. I never engage with

01:14anybody. I engage with the Clerk who does all the work.

01:16It's important to have this information put out transparent in the public domain and I

01:20hope you as Chair will ensure that's done. I still would make the point that I would

01:24like a proposal put to the meeting that if there is somebody of a political nature that's

01:29a witness to this committee, request a meeting of such nature that this committee is informed

01:35prior to you agreeing to go on.

01:37Well I explained last week why the timing was very difficult and why that was the only

01:44opportunity to get it out. I feel that I've answered this enough. There is nothing, I

01:49haven't done anything outside my roles and responsibilities as the Chair of this committee.

01:53And if people had of, and to pick up on Brian's point, Brian I appreciate that you think that

01:59there's maybe some questions that weren't answered, but I crafted my questions in such

02:03a way that they're related to the work of this committee so I could ask them. So, and

02:08then whenever Harry's questions weren't in relation to it I said could you please couch

02:12it in relation to the Executive Office Committee. He's had days without legal advice to think

02:16about how the questions should be crafted.

02:18I did craft mine all around the Ministerial Code.

02:21Yours were for the Assembly Commission and then you did get the answers back.

02:26Mine were for, they had the First Minister here in front of us. It was all about a confidential piece.

02:31It's the Standards Commissioners about the Ministerial Code, go ahead.