Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I would be more positively disposed to considering these things in that spirit were the Minister in a position to give concrete examples of where that might happen. I will give him another example. Were there to be corporate lobbying of some individual, Department or public official on the arming of the Defence Forces or something like that, there might be an argument on one side to the effect that revealing any communication in that regard would represent a threat to the safety of the State. However, there would be a countervailing argument in people having a legitimate right to know if such lobbying activities were occurring between such a supplier and any organ of the State.