Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 18 June 2015

Public Accounts Committee

2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine

10:00 am

Mr. Aidan O'Driscoll:

Yes. To be honest, as a civil servant, I just do not understand how we could have confidentiality clauses. For example, if the Comptroller and Auditor General wants to examine a settlement, there is no possibility that I would say "No". Equally, he could bring a report here to the Committee of Public Accounts, so I cannot see the purpose of a confidentiality clause.

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