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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys: Secretary General of the Department of the Taoiseach (29 Sep 2021)

John Brady: ...tasked with heading up, into the leaking of confidential information from the Cabinet. I am speaking specifically in relation to the leaking of the report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes in January 2021. Does Mr. Fraser think that the establishment of an investigation into the leaking of that information was necessary?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys: Secretary General of the Department of the Taoiseach (29 Sep 2021)

John Brady: ...He has headed up investigations in the past. He has been tasked with heading up the investigation into the leaking of private information around the report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes. I am asking him about the methodology around that and whether he has been tasked with heading up an investigation into the continuation of the leaking of confidential...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys: Secretary General of the Department of the Taoiseach (29 Sep 2021)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: I thank the Chairman and Mr. Fraser. I am fully cognisant of the advice the Chairman has offered to the committee as to the remit of this meeting but I want to ask a question on something that Mr. Fraser offered in the course of his own contribution. It is entirely up to himself whether he takes the opportunity to answer it. This relates to some of the concerns about leaks from Cabinet,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys: Secretary General of the Department of the Taoiseach (29 Sep 2021)

Charles Flanagan: Senator Ó Donnghaile, I have already ruled as Chair that the committee is not charged with any remit dealing with mother and baby homes or any discussion at Cabinet pertaining to same. That notwithstanding, the Secretary General is already on record at this committee as making a comment. I am unsure as to the extent to which the Secretary General would wish either to repeat that or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Appointment of Special Envoys: Secretary General of the Department of the Taoiseach (29 Sep 2021)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: Regardless of whether one regards this as significant issue in hindsight, the reason it is important to compare is that the Oireachtas system actually crashed given the volume of public interest and disgust around the issues of the mother and baby homes, so heavily lobbied were Members at that time. When we have the opportunity, it is a relevant question to ask Mr. Fraser of his own...