Ms Evelyn O'Connor:

I understand Deputy Fleming's point that now, because a stepped regime is being proposed, category A officials, when making their periodic disclosure, will have to disclose not just their own interests but those of the spouse or child where they would have a material influence on the performance of their functions. For other relatives, it would be a case of making ad hoc disclosures. If an actual conflict arises in respect of a relation and the person has knowledge of it, an ad hoc disclosure would be made. However, in the case of relatives, the disclosure would be a private declarable interest rather than being them made in the public domain.