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

Re the Bi Laratal Administrative Agreements that the EU member states signed with the EU Commission in 1998/99. Those administrative agreements followed the publication in the OJ of EU Reg 2064/97 A chara, in accord with the Freedom of Information Acts can you provide me with any documents identifying the member states that signed "Bi Lateral Administrative Agreements" with the EU Commission circa 1998/99. Those agreement were part of the Sound Efficient Management programme that the EU Commission and Dr Brian Gray introduced in 1997. Secondly, I wish to access a copy of the Bi Lateral Administrative Agreements signed in mid-1998 by the D/Finance which I am now advised comes under the authority of D/PER Thirdly, I wish to access the documented communications between the EU Commission and the D/Finance (now D/PER), which eventually led the EU authorities and Brian Gray to insist that Ireland sign those administrative agreements. Fourthly, can I access a copy of the relevant minutes relating to those agreements as recorded by the Interdepartmental Sound Efficient Management Committee, better known as ICSEM I am following up on the Village Magazine May 2022 Podcast