Department of Health

All correspondence involving either the secretary general; the deputy secretary (corporate affairs) or the principal officer (press and communications) which relate to the formulation, consideration and approval of responses to the Data Protection Commissioner in the course to its inquiry into data held by the Department of Health and commenced in March 2021. This can be confined to responses to drafts of the report or substantive queries and can exclude any administration queries, such as access to buildings or logistics, and briefing material for the appearance by the Secretary General at the Oireachtas Health Committee on May 5, 2021. This can be confined to the period March 2021 to June 2021. All correspondence involving either the secretary general; the deputy secretary (corporate affairs) or the principal officer (press and communications) which relate the formulation, consideration and approval of the contents a letter sent to affected families in April 2021 by the secretary general. This can be confined to the period March 2021 to April 15 2021. All correspondence involving either the secretary general; the deputy secretary (corporate affairs) or the principal officer (press and communications) which relate the formulation, consideration and approval of responses or correspondence to RTÉ in relation to a programme broadcast on this issue on March 27, 2021. This can be confined to the period March 2021 to May 2021.