Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 7 September 2021
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence
Appointment of Special Envoys: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence
Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
As I said at the start, it would have been helpful, particularly now when we are looking at these texts with the benefit of hindsight, if, after her enthusiastic texts of 4 March when she was excited about the possibility of the role, I had gone back to her to say there was no done deal, we needed to go through a process and that I had been talking about a concept. It would have been helpful if I had done that and I did not. However, if members look at her texts they will see that at no point did I go back to encourage her, to say things were concluding or anything like that. If anything, I did not correspond with her and left this issue in the hands of the Department, which was the appropriate place to leave it.
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