1 Mrs. Doyle asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and Forestry the reason the briefing note prepared by CBF for the Department of Agriculture in anticipation of Irish-Iraqi joint commission talks in November 1988, was edited by his Department without the author's permission; whether this practice is still acceptable departmental policy; and his view of the consequences of deleting a sentence which indicated that, in recent years, the product supplied to Iraq had largely been from intervention, which was in the original version of the letter from CBF. [2894/94]

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1 Mrs. Doyle asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and Forestry the reason the briefing note prepared by CBF for the Department of Agriculture in anticipation of Irish-Iraqi joint commission talks in November 1988, was edited by his Department without the author's permission; whether this practice is still acceptable departmental policy; and his view of the consequences of deleting a sentence which indicated that, in recent years, the product supplied to Iraq had largely been from intervention, which was in the original version of the letter from CBF. [2894/94]

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1. 3 November 1994

   Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Alteration of CBF Document.

   1 Mrs. Doyle asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and Forestry the reason the briefing note prepared by CBF for the Department of Agriculture in anticipation of Irish-Iraqi joint commission talks in November 1988, was edited by his Department without the author's permission; whether this practice is still acceptable departmental policy; and his view of the consequences of deleting a sentence which indicated that, in recent years, the product supplied to Iraq had largely been from intervention, which was in the original version of the letter from CBF. [2894/94]

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