Sir – It’s perfectly obvious why no record was kept of the March 24th meeting between the Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the secretary of the Department of Justice.
This is part of the now current ethos within large sections of the Civil Service whereby if no documentary record is kept of a meeting or a decision process, then there will be no document that must be released under the freedom of information legislation.
Similarly in this specific instance, there will be no embarrassment in 30 years or so when the State papers are released. There will simply be no papers that can be released. – Yours, etc,
PAT KENNEDY,
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Douglas,
Cork.