Tourism body could have kept CEO email

Fáilte Ireland was under no obligation to keep records of its former CEO’s emails after he left the company, the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform has said.

However, the Department of Tourism has refused to say whether it believes the tourism authority acted appropriately by deleting all of Shaun Quinn’s emails after he left his position of CEO of Fáilte Ireland in December 2016.

Yesterday, the Irish Examiner revealed that there are no records of Mr Quinn’s emails around the time Donald Trump contacted then tourism Minister Leo Varadkar about a proposed wind farm in Clare in 2014.