Department of Finance criticised for using GDPR rules to avoid publishing Apple appeal legal payments

The Dail's Spending watchdog has blasted the Department of Finance's use of GDPR rules not to publish payments to lawyers acting on its behalf in the €14bn Apple appeal.

At a committee meeting, the Department was accused of engaging in a total “abuse of the GDPR” laws which committee members was never intended to prevent such payments from being made public.