Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The regulatory body could decide if it was in the public interest to make a recommendation on that basis. The purpose of this exercise is to tease it out, and if I am reading incorrectly, I am perfectly willing to be corrected on that. The way that it is published is that there will always be publication unless there is a substantial reason not to, whereas it might be weighted the other way around.

I say this on the basis that it takes such a long time and is very onerous for people. If one is talking to some person who is going through this process, it feels like it is never going to be over and it never leaves them. I know that dealing with these people, where I was in the happy position of being able to go home after meeting them or after one of the sessions. It is not my life, but it is every single day for them and it never goes away, no matter what they are doing. Even in the back of their minds, when they think they know, all that they can think about is that, no matter what happens, they still have another hurdle to go through and it can still come back at them. I am not saying we should not protect the public interest and that we should not publish where there is good reason to do so. The emphasis should be and should start from the point that there will not be publication unless it is in the public interest to so do, in which case there will be publication. This is a difference of emphasis.