Seán Sherlock (Cork East, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I have a difficulty sometimes in understanding parliamentary legal language. The provision to the effect that the identity of the person making the complaint is not disclosed is fine, as is the provision that it relates to a private matter and is unrelated to the functions of the respondent. However, will the Minister explain the provision that "it relates in substance to a period when the respondent was not a public official"?