Mr. Brian Hogan:

The point I would like to make is the point I made at the meeting. I am sorry that there may have been a misunderstanding at the meeting. I will explain the issue with the reports. I do not know if anybody has seen the reports. They contain personal information in the form of photographs of passports, identification cards and atypical worker permit permissions. My point was that the MSO does not have a role in the enforcement of worker permits. We have a problem with receiving personal information. The information was sent over the Internet on email web addresses. I am a civil servant. Data protection is the first thing I think about when I receive such information. We have a problem when we receive very personal information that is not relevant to our work. We do not know what to do. I was concerned that I needed to shred the documents in this case in the interests of confidentiality. Perhaps that was misinterpreted as putting them in the bin. We have procedures. I will suggest why the misunderstanding could have occurred. I raised a concern about data protection issues. Obviously, the last thing I would do is put the documents in question in the bin. That would be an absolute contradiction of my reasons for raising this issue in the first place. I still have the documents. I have not destroyed them. I have not put them in the bin. We have a data protection concern about the receipt of this information. That is what I have to say about the first issue.

I will move on to the next issue raised by the Senator. I am not able to discuss any personal cases or names or any other issue relating to cases. I will talk about the case in a generic sense.