Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I agree. We need transparency as well. There are all sorts of conflicting issues. The Constitution sets out the mechanisms for that. It requires Cabinet confidentiality. One of the officers who acts as protector of the Constitution is the Attorney General. Governments are bound to heed his or her advice on what delivers the constitutional protections that protect us all in the end. We could be at the receiving end of a report if that was not the case. We have to heed the constitutional office of the Attorney General.