Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I will leave it at that because I do not think the Minister of State has an answer. The question is a direct one. Extraordinary protection against parliamentary accountability is being afforded in the paragraph to the chief executive officer of the HSE. The rationale the Minister of State has given is that it is to avoid jeopardising future court cases. I do not understand how discussion at this committee will jeopardise future court cases and I am worried that, if we accept that logic, we will have to ask if we are allowed to discuss anything at this committee.