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Tuesday, 14 October 2025

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Pádraig Rice

Question:

537. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport the reason the records of the Departmental Council of the Department of Posts and Telegraphs over the period November 1981 to December 1983 dealing with the transfer of 10,000 civil servants from that Department to An Post are not available under the Freedom of Information Act 2014. [54655/25]

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Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport (Deputy Patrick O'Donovan)

Section 11 of the Freedom of Information Act 2014, refers to records being subject to access by request, should the records be created on or after the 'effective date’ of the FOI Act itself. Records from 1981 to 1983 therefore do not fall under the provisions of the FOI Act.

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