Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Independent) | Oireachtas source

So the default position is that they cannot tell one anyway, rightly or wrongly. Therefore, the question is why this section is in here. As I read the constitutional section, it refers to the High Court determining that disclosure should be made by virtue of an overriding public interest pursuant to an application on that behalf by a tribunal appointed by a Government or a Minister of the Government on the authority of the Houses of the Oireachtas to inquire into matters stated by them to be of public importance. One can read that in two different ways. One can read it as pursuant to an application from a tribunal appointed by either a Government or a Minister of Government on the authority of the Houses of the Oireachtas or as pursuant to an application from the tribunal or a Minister of the Government. That is a technical issue and I am sure there is legal opinion-----