Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 11 April 2019
Public Accounts Committee
Business of Committee
9:00 am
Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
No. We will conclude on this. I want to reiterate the point because it can be significant. I am clear that the Deputy identified nobody here and I am satisfied that the remarks he made here could not have led to anyone being identifiable. However, I am quite sure that it is reasonable to say that because of what he put on the record, those people could be identifiable within the Prison Service by other serving staff. They could well have known who the Deputy was talking about. It could impinge on their good name if they could be identified within the Prison Service based on the information put on the record here. I wanted to avoid that. That is why I sent it to An Garda Síochána.
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