Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)

As I stated, this is not work done by the Oireachtas Commission. If it were, it would be open to anybody. Any work done within Government Departments is for the Government and in this case the staff of those Departments as well as Ministers. The Deputy is right in that this is communications data, but on that basis everything would be provided by all civil servants. On that basis, Sinn Féin would have to give me its communications and intelligence unit information, which would be far more interesting than this.

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