Department of Transport

copies of all records which are held by, or on behalf of, the Department for Transport (the 'Department") (including, but not limited to, the offices of Mr Eamon Ryan (as Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications and Minister for Transport), Mr Jack Chambers (as Minister of State with responsibility for International and Road Transport and Logistics and Minister of State with responsibility for Postal Policy) and Ms Hildegarde Naughton (in her previous role as Minister of State with responsibility for International and Road Transport and Logistics and Minister of State with responsibility for Postal Policy and Eircodes)) in relation to communications between: the Department and all members of the Public Accounts Committee (the "Committee" currently: Brian Stanley, Catherine Murphy, John Brady, Colm Burke, Cormac Devlin, Alan Dillon, Alan Kelly, Paul McAuliffe, Imelda Munster, Verona Murphy, James O'Connor & Marc Ö Cathasaigh); the Department and the Department of the Taoiseach; the Department and the Department of Defence; the Department and the Irish Coast Guard (the Committee, the Department of the Taoiseach, the Department of Defence and the Irish Coast Guard, together referred to hereinafter as the "Third Parties"), which refer to the question of who would provide the service pursuant to the new Irish Coast Guard Search and Rescue Aviation Contract (the "IRCG SAR Contract"). all records of communications between the Department and the Third Parties, including any staff thereof, relating to the question of who would provide the service pursuant to the IRCG SAR Contract, including but not limited to letters, emails, reports, agreements, memoranda, minutes of meetings, databases, diary entries, text messages, WhatsApp messages and voicenotes, multimedia messages, notes (including handwritten notes of any type) and records of phone calls; and all records of internal communications between Department personnel where correspondence with the Third Parties pertaining to the question of who would provide the service pursuant to the IRCG SAR Contract was considered and/or discussed, including but not limited to letters, emails, reports, agreements, memoranda, minutes of meetings, databases, diary entries, text messages, WhatsApp messages and voicenotes, multimedia messages, notes (including handwritten notes of any type) and records of phone calls.