Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 6 April 2017
Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Public Sector Standards Bill 2015: Committee Stage
10:00 am
Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
Exactly, it is a long-held principle that a person accused of a crime who ends up in criminal proceedings has rights. One of those rights is that one cannot previously have been required to share information that could be self-incriminating.
In what I hope would be a rare event of this happening, we are amending the section to ensure that the commissioner would not be required to do anything that subsequently might mean such a criminal investigation might be undermined.
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