Top civil servant 'not optimistic' about finding who leaked mother and baby homes report

Martin Fraser was before the Oireachtas foreign affairs committee to explain when Katherine Zappone’s name was communicated to the Department of the Taoiseach for appointment as UN special envoy

Martin Fraser, the secretary-general of the Department of the Taoiseach, was before the Oireachtas foreign affairs committee.
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The country's top civil servant says he is "not optimistic" about finding out who leaked the report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes to a Sunday newspaper before it was published.

Martin Fraser, the secretary-general of the Department of the Taoiseach and the State’s highest-ranking civil servant, was before the Oireachtas foreign affairs committee today to explain when Katherine Zappone’s name was communicated to the Department of the Taoiseach for appointment as UN special envoy.