Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 2 February 2022
Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Estimates for Public Services
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised)
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (Revised)
Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
That is one of the issues we will have to examine as part of the review. It is absolutely wrong. It is the subject of sanction whereby anybody in possession of documents or information that needs to be retained for FOI purposes must retain that. If a person wilfully and deliberately destroys documents to avoid disclosure by way of FOI, that is the subject of sanction. We will provide those full details of the current position in that regard to the Deputy and also details of the review that is under way by way of a written reply.
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