Department of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation

Copies of all internal correspondence – including but not limited to emails, memos, PowerPoint presentations – within D/PER (as well as correspondence to and from the Office of the Government Chief Information Officer and the Office of Government Procurement), from 1 October 2021 to 12 October 2022, regarding the proposed “Microsoft Whole of Government Agreement” (which is referenced in the publicly available minutes of the D/PER Management Board meeting of 19 September). This request includes (in addition to internal correspondence between officials, political advisors and Ministers) any legal advice that D/PER may have received, either from its own legal advisor, the Office of the Attorney General, or external legal counsel, on the “Microsoft Whole of Government Agreement”.