Silence on solicitor’s resignation from board
company’s role in representing the Data Protection Office in the past may have constituted a further conflict of interest but received no response.
The Data Protection Commissioner has been closely involved with Irish Water because of its insistence that customers provide their PPS numbers when registering for its services.
The company also reported a data protection breach last month, when it inadvertently sent bank details relating to a number of individuals to the wrong people.
Efforts to contact Mr Lee were unsuccessful this week. The Data Protection Office also declined to comment on the matter. THERE has been much speculation about the reasons for the sudden departure of solicitor Philip Lee from the board of Irish Water last month, as revealed by the Irish Mail on Sunday.
Mr Lee’s company, Philip Lee Solicitors, earned just under €2m for consulting on the Poolbeg incinerator project under Irish Water CEO John Tierney, who was then Dublin City County manager.
Mr Lee and Irish Water refused to comment on a possible conflict of interest at the time of his appointment to the board.
Mr Lee, Irish Water and the Department of the Environment have all failed to explain why Mr Lee has stepped down.
The MoS asked the department and Irish Water again this week whether Mr Lee’s