Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I have four questions. I refer Ms O'Reilly to her opening statement on her last review and the report to the committee in 2006. I want to tease this out a little. There is clearly a procedural issue or, to use Deputy McDonald's phrase, a cultural issue. If there were 150 occasions on which the Office of the Information Commissioner disagreed with the Department's interpretation, it obviously put together a significant body of associated work. Its representatives appeared before an Oireachtas committee and argued their case. The commissioner outlined why her office disagreed and the committee, by implication, found her to be incorrect, for want of a kinder phrase, on 150 occasions. This is not possible. Is the process flawed? It must be extremely disheartening for Ms O'Reilly to have come before an Oireachtas committee-----