The Department of Justice has confirmed that it will publish correspondence between Justice Minister Alan Shatter and Judge Peter Smithwick following the Government's decision to impose a deadline on the work of Smithwick Tribunal.
At the start of the Tribunal's sitting today, Judge Smithwick said the minister had informed him he would lay copies of the correspondence between the two before the Oireachtas Library.
The department has confirmed this would happen, but not for several days.
Earlier, a former Assistant Chief Constable in the RUC denied claims that he pressurised two officers to go to Dundalk to meet gardaí.
On their return from that meeting Chief Supt Harry Breen and Supt Bob Buchanan were killed in an IRA ambush.
Identified only as Witness 18 - he gave evidence from behind a screen to protect his identify - the former senior RUC officer said the two men had disobeyed an order and died as a result.
However, under cross examination, it was put to him that Chief Supt Breen's widow said he could not have been at a meeting where the order was given because he was with her all that day. Witness 18 insisted Mr Breen was there.
He also rejected a claim from another RUC officer that he was pressurising the two men to attend a meeting in Dundalk to resolve an issue with gardaí.
That, he said, was simply not true.
