Noel Dempsey (Meath West, Fianna Fail)

The Deputy asked whether there was a document in the Department on 13 June. There was, and the document in question was released under freedom of information legislation. As the Deputy noted, it was headed, "For the information of the Minister". Neither I nor my predecessor ever received that document. While everyone within the Department accepts I should have been informed of the document's contents and should have received it, I was not so informed and did not receive it.

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