Supt Kevin Lennon was asked yesterday about finds of explosives at Rossnowlagh, Co Donegal, in July 1994, writes Gerard Cunningham.
The tribunal is looking into claims that Supt Lennon and Det Garda Noel McMahon - both suspended from the Garda - prepared explosives with alleged IRA informer Ms Adrienne McGlinchey for bogus Garda arms finds. Supt Lennon and Det Garda McMahon deny the allegations and Ms McGlinchey denies that she was an informer.
Mr Paul Murray BL asked Supt Lennon why on six occasions he had failed to say he had information from Ms McGlinchey before she brought him and Det Noel McMahon to the sites the night before they were uncovered.
"You didn't include it in your statement to the Carty team, you didn't refer to it in your question and answer session, you didn't refer to it in your corrections, you didn't refer to it in your statement prepared for the Court of Criminal Appeal, nor to the Court of Criminal Appeal itself, nor when you met the tribunal team initially," Mr Murray said.
"So this is the seventh opportunity you've had to remember the two prior pieces of info you say came from Ms McGlinchey?"
"From Mr McMahon to me, from Ms McGlinchey," said Supt Lennon.
Mr Murray said that if Ms McGlinchey had given him information prior to the find, and he had put that information in two reports before the find, he would have remembered it when speaking to the Carty team. "Well, I didn't remember it, and my reports are the truth in fact as I was told it," Supt Lennon said.