Whistleblowing civil servant says meetings were deliberately not recorded to avoid FOI

Department of Health whistleblower Shane Corr said staff within the department were instructed that discussions about alleged financial irregularities were not to be recorded in a way that would make it accessible under Freedom of Information

In an August letter to Public Expenditure and Reform Minister Michael McGrath, Shane Corr said since January of 2020 he had 'witnessed extraordinary breaches of public financial procedures and the public spending code' amounting to from 'the tens, to hundreds of millions of euros'. Picture:: Julien Behal

A whistleblower at the Department of Health has said staff within the department were instructed that discussions about alleged financial irregularities were not to be recorded in a way that would make it accessible under Freedom of Information.

In an August letter to Public Expenditure and Reform Minister Michael McGrath, Shane Corr said since January of 2020 he had “witnessed extraordinary breaches of public financial procedures and the public spending code” amounting to from “the tens, to hundreds of millions of euros”.