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FOI Request 21/213


Category

Journalist

Reference

FOI Request 21/213

Request

• Internal guidelines (all versions extant in 2018, 2019,2020 and 2021) pertaining to the use of mobile phones issued by the Department to the Minister for Foreign Affairs.
• Internal guidelines pertaining to the use of mobile phones issued by the Department to the Secretary General.
• All communications (letter, email, minutes of meetings, SMS, Whatsapp, Signal, iMessage, Viber etc.) from 1 August 2020 to 7 September 2021 between the Department and any other Foreign Affairs Department (or equivalent) of any member state of the European Union relating to the 'hacking' of Minister Simon Coveney's mobile phone in August 2020.
• All communications (letter, email, minutes of meetings, SMS, Whatsapp, Signal, iMessage, Viber etc.) from 1 August 2020 to 7 September 2021 between Minister Simon Coveney and any other Foreign Affairs Minister (or equivalent) of any member state of the European Union relating to the 'hacking' (or phishing) of Minister Coveney's mobile phone in August 2020.
• All communications (letter, email, minutes of meetings, SMS, Whatsapp, Signal, iMessage, Viber etc.) from 1 January 2020 to 7 September 2021 between Minister Simon Coveney and Minister Paschal Donohoe containing the word "Zappone".

Date

September 8, 2021

Replied

October 5, 2021

Reply 21/213

Schedule 21/213