Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

We cannot have accountability without transparency, and the absence of transparency opens up questions that might not even be valid. No group of people are better able to advise themselves on the law than the legal profession. They are in a commanding position. I have received replies to parliamentary questions on consultancy firms advising various Departments on GDPR. The committee must get to grips with this issue, given that it will become the new “commercial sensitivity” element. We have been getting responses about “commercial sensitivity” for years.