Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Did the Minister make any other arrangements? I imagine if he was in America, he had staff with him. He did not want to be out of email communication. Surely to God people were able to send the Minister documents, briefing notes and such, and surely somebody else on the team had an uncorrupted device that emails could have been sent to? Were there no arrangements like that and was it a case of saying the Minister is away in America, that there are no communications or emails, and God help us if anything happens because we cannot send him an email and he cannot access them? We do not live in that world today.