Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

It is not my practice but it happens on occasion. I have provided the Deputy with three very obvious instances where it occurred. My Department has an email policy which recognises that on occasion, staff members and officers like me would use personal emails. The policy covers how we ensure those emails become public records. That is either by printing them out and adding them to a file, by forwarding them to a Department address or by ensuring someone in the email thread is there. That is how we ensure it is part of the public record. I guarantee the Deputy that if I wanted to conceal something, I would not put it in any sort of email-----