Jim Daly (Cork South West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Again, what is the objective of these provisions? It is to protect the public on one hand and to protect the registrant on the other. We are trying to balance their rights. Essentially, what this legislation is all about is building confidence in the function of regulators. The right to publish is essential in order to have an open, transparent, fully accessible, accountable and credible system of regulation. If one comes at it from the other side and says that there is no right to publish then one is taking away the element of transparency which is essential in underpinning faith in the system of regulation.