‘No attempt to conceal information’ on McCabe

The Department of Justice will insist today there was “no attempt to conceal information” relating to the Maurice McCabe scandal and that internal changes mean the missing emails controversy cannot be repeated.

Senior officials will make the claim today during a detailed Dáil Public Accounts Committee meeting on IT problems at the department in recent years.

The department was embroiled in a major scandal last November amid revelations surrounding emails, the disclosures tribunal and former justice minister Frances Fitzgerald.