Varadkar raps former Department of Finance head over lobbying

‘It undermines [my ministers], damages relationships, and adds to my workload’

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar warned the former head of the Department of Finance about lobbying him on his private email account.

John Moran, the former secretary general of the Department of Finance, wrote to Varadkar at his private email address last summer about the issue of electricity capacity in Dublin. Moran was writing on behalf of a company which has planning permission for a combined heat and power plant in south Dublin but believes ...