Alan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour)
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222. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if Ministers, ministerial advisers or officials in his Department have ever used private email to communicate on departmental issues between one another or with other persons or organisations; if so, the reason; if so, if he will publish these emails; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38564/18]

Charles Flanagan (Laois, Fine Gael)
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My Department has a clear policy in which staff are directed not to use third-party or web-based email accounts to send or receive Departmental information, not least because the method is much less secure than Departmental systems.

Thus it is not the practice amongst officials within my Department, nor is it my practice nor that of my advisors, to use personal email accounts for Departmental business.

However, the issue of personal email accounts for work-related business may on rare occasions arise out of necessity, for example where ICT systems are inaccessible.