Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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156. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he and any Minister of State under his Department uses a personal e-mail account for work purposes; the security controls that are in place relating to the use of personal e-mail accounts for Department related business; if his Department has a policy on this matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5253/17]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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I refer to the reply to Question No 240 of 13 December 2016.

Ministers of State Catherine Byrne and Damien English have both confirmed that they do not use non-Departmental personal email accounts for work purposes.

My Department does allow staff to access personal web-based email accounts from the network, but does not permit the use of such personal email accounts for Departmental confidential information.