Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)
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Question 149: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he or representatives from his office have met a journalist (details supplied) in an official capacity; the number of occasions of same; the purpose of the meeting; and if information from official files was shared with the journalist. [7829/07]

Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)
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The Deputy will not, I am certain, be surprised to learn that any Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform will have occasion to meet with journalists, especially Crime and Security correspondents, from time to time, as a normal function of that Office. Officials in my Department and myself had a standard relationship with the journalist in question in the course of his work as a Crime and Security correspondent. On no occasion was official information improperly shared with this person by myself or by anybody authorised to do so on my behalf.