Moses has just compared Connolly to J Edgar Hoover, the FBI director who was found to have secretly abused his power by surveilling elected officials and civil rights leaders.
“You seem to think that you have the power, a bit like J Edgar Hoover, to conduct investigations into elected officials in order to obtain information about what they’re up to,” he puts to Connolly.
She denies this, and her legal representative, Ryan Coffey, objects to the question. Moses withdraws it.
“There’s no pathway by which you, as a CEO, can investigate the councillors to whom you answer … You do not have the statutory power to investigate councillors.”
Connolly points to the council’s complaints management policy that allowed “any complaint [made to] the CEO to investigate a complaint”.
She apologises to the commissioner for her confusion, saying “there were so many investigations going on at any one time, I can’t recall” a specific email being raised by Moses.
