Aideen Hayden (Labour) | Oireachtas source

I can think of many situations where individuals might not be remotely comfortable with making declarations to a line manager. Has the Department allowed for matters of privacy? Where do we draw the line here? I can see that category C officials are intended to be lower down the ladder and their interests relate to matters of integrity, impartiality, objective honesty and so forth.

Their declarations only relate to situations where there could be a perceived or actual conflict of interest and they must make their declarations in those circumstances. However, in regard to category B, they must declare all public declarable interests as per category A. In other words, they must declare any directorships or anything they might be engaged in that would bring about a conflict of interest. I am not clear on exactly what category B includes. Category B includes a substantial number of public officials, senior level officials, directors of public bodies and principal officers, the level Deputy Fleming wanted to include in category A, across the public sector. Can I have a quick and succinct response to the question as to what category A and B are each obliged to declare? We know category C officials are not obliged to declare much.