Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I would not have any difficulty releasing the information other than the fact that the ruling of the Office of the Information Commissioner ties our hands in that regard. From April onwards, if there were any abuses that required publication then I would not have any difficulty doing that. I am sure, however, that the Deputy is not actually advising me, in this House, to disregard a ruling on data protection by the Office of the Information Commissioner. I hope that is not what he is seriously asking me to do. A previous Minister got into a lot of trouble for doing that sort of thing on "Prime Time" and I am certainly not going to do it.

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It is important to say the internal audit report is available on the Department's website. The team did not find any evidence of employers acting to abuse the scheme. All of the managers' responses were accepted by the internal auditor and the internal audit committee is responding adequately to the issues raised in the initial report.

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