Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Did the ombudsman have to start writing the report when he found out that this statutory instrument would deny him the right to give a description as contained in the original legislation, or as I claim, was this hand-in-glove - did he know all along that he would not give effect to part of the legislation, which allowed him to describe the substantive claim?