Cathal Berry (Kildare South, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister for his opening statement and for the apology contained within it. I have three questions. They are technical in nature. Perhaps the Minister or his team might be able to answer them over the next few minutes. I acknowledge the large treasure trove of documentation that was uploaded onto the Department of Foreign Affair's website yesterday. It was very useful and helpful. We appear to be missing one record, which is 094_90. We move from No. 93 to No. 95, but there is no record for No. 94. Are we still waiting for a text message screen grab to be uploaded? Perhaps this is just an administrative oversight where there was a typo in the sequencing of the record numbers.

A lot of email traffic related to whether a contract of employment was going to be finalised for Katherine Zappone. There were terms of reference and a concept paper. Was a contract of employment ever finalised for Katherine Zappone? Did she sign or date anything? Was there any formal arrangement from that point of view?

Finally, there was some email traffic in relation to whether the 50 days a year that she would work for a two-year period was going to be reckonable from a pensions perspective. Was there any final decision on whether the temporary, short-term job that she was doing would be reckonable from a pensions point of view? To be fair to the Minister, they are the only questions I have. If he could answer them or perhaps even cover some of the other questions from the other members, it would be much appreciated.