Departmental Records

Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 21 April 2021

Wednesday, 21 April 2021

Questions (795)

Paul Murphy

Question:

795. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if a meeting took place on 29 September 2014 between a senior Department official and three persons to discuss the unauthorised removal from the Minister’s office of a file pertaining to the CPO of lands (details supplied) and to receive a replacement file; if a security file within his Department was created in connection with the security search for the missing file; and if the unauthorised taking of the file from the Minister’s office between the dates of its first delivery on 1 September 2014 to the date of the replacement file of 29 September 2014 was reported to An Garda Síochána. [20312/21]

Written answers

Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage

It is my understanding that a meeting took place in Leinster House on 29 September 2014 between the Private Secretary to the then Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government and 3 other people for the purpose of obtaining a copy of a file that had been sent by them to the Minister and subsequently mislaid.

The original file was not removed from the Minister's office without authorisation but was inadvertently placed with other papers and subsequently found after a period of time. Accordingly, the matter was not reported to An Garda Síochána, as there was no security incident.

Question No. 796 answered with Question No. 794.