Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

My second question relates to what happened last Sunday morning when there was contact between the Taoiseach's Department and the Office of the President. My question is: who initiated that contact and on what basis did he or she do that? Presumably, it was not a senior official acting off his or her own bat in doing that. On whose instruction did an official make contact with the Office of the President?

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