Mattie McGrath (Tipperary, Independent)
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115. To ask the Taoiseach the details of engagements, meetings or correspondence that each Minister of State in his Department has had with a person (details supplied) in the past three years. [45465/18]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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There are currently four Ministers of State, including the Government Chief Whip assigned to my Department. The Minister of State with special responsibility for Defence, the Minister of State for European Affairs and the Government Chief Whip are based at the Department of the Taoiseach. Their offices have confirmed that the Ministers have had no engagements, meetings or correspondence with the named individual in the past three years.

The Minister of State with special responsibility for Trade, Employment, Business, EU Digital Single Market and Data Protection is based in the Department of Enterprise & Innovation. The Minister for Business, Enterprise & Innovation has outlined the position of the Minister for State in that regard.

In addition, over the period in question the then Minister of State with special responsibility for the Diaspora was based at the Department of the Taoiseach. This office is now located in the Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade and the Tánaiste has responded in respect of the Minister of State.