Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 21 September 2017

Public Accounts Committee

Business of Committee

9:00 am

Photo of Mary Lou McDonaldMary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

That is probably not a bad suggestion depending on how long it will take. We do not want to be caught up in a prolonged exchange between our legal people and their legal people. Whatever about redacting on the basis of protecting an individual's identity, they have also redacted to take from our view the names of servers, providers and larger corporate entities. That is the bit that intrigues me. I do not see the rationale for doing that. I agree we cannot proceed with this redacted version. We should perhaps do two things. We should proceed as the Chairman suggests in terms of the legal advisers making contact and also write directly and say to them that we want an unredacted version of the report. They might surprise us.

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