Request Reference 20-175 20-176 Journalist Please send me all communications (e-mails, letters phonecalls, texts etc) both internal and Withdrawn external in 2019 and 2020 regarding efforts to retrieve gold from the sunken RMS Empress of Britain off the coast of Donegal. Please also send me the minutes of any minutes on same, during the same time period.

Requester Type Journalist

Department of Finance

- a record of the amount paid out in severance payments for former office holders [as per the attached image in the Dept of Finance accounts for 2019]. A breakdown of severance payments in each of the following years 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and the number of persons in receipt of such payments.