Alan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour)
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281. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the times and formats of all communications between the Secretary General of his Department and the then Minister on 15 May 2015. [50417/17]

Charles Flanagan (Laois, Fine Gael)
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As the Deputy will appreciate, given the passage of time, it is a challenge to definitively ascertain information on all possible forms of communication covered by the question.

However, in order to endeavour to answer this question as comprehensively as possible, I have asked the Secretary General to review his diary and e-mail communications from 15 May 2015.

There were no meetings listed with the then Minister for Justice and Equality, Frances Fitzgerald on the day in question.  From the diary record of the Private Office to the Minister, it appears that the then Minister attended a number of constituency related events that day and may not have been present in the Department of Justice and Equality.

The Secretary General had one direct email communication with the then Minister on that day, in relation to a vacancy in GSOC. 

Staff of the Secretary General and Minister's Offices would have also engaged in email, telephone and verbal communications on a range of issues such as diary matters and general administration issues.