Robert Watt, secretary-general of the Department of Health, said it was his understanding an agreement to keep the document secret “would have been made explicit” during the negotiation process
The document leaked by former Taoiseach Leo Varadkar had never ceased to be classified and confidential, the country’s best-known civil servant said.
Mr Watt said that the plan was always for the document to be published but only when it was completely finalised. Correspondence between SIPO and the Departments of Health and the Taoiseach was originally withheld by the Standards Commission under FOI laws. SIPO also asked if the contract had ever been requested by anybody else at the time from the Department of Health.
In his response, Mr Callinan said the classification of documents was generally a matter for individual departments.
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