Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 8 February 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence

Review of Workplace Arrangements: Department of Foreign Affairs

Photo of Simon CoveneySimon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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Like I said, having read a report and looked at public concern and anger with regard to that image and what it represented, of course now, 19 months later, with the benefit of hindsight, it would have been appropriate for me to have raised it directly with the Secretary General to understand the background to it and how it happened. I had the kind of relationship with my Secretary General in which I trusted him. This was a workplace incident. I was not there. I had not been involved in it.