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
Mr. Joe Hackett:
There are two elements to that. Records Nos. 8, 28, 40, 37, 39, 53 and 57 were all released as part of the freedom of information requests that were annexed to the review and contain some elements of the advanced planning and some of the efforts that were made to comply with social distance guidance. All the meetings we had said that the director of the team and the deputy Secretary General at the time, on a series of videoconferences in the days leading up to it, discussed coming in, who would come in and when they would come in. That is touched upon in the review but perhaps we could have gone into it in more detail.