John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

When you are a PEP, then comes the definition Deputy Jim O'Callaghan asked for. The question arose in some of these meetings - do not ask me which layer it came up at - but certain civil servants were excluded from being considered as PEPs. It is in the minutes of those meetings. It was civil servants who made the decision around that. If I wanted to found out how that arose, why it arose and why they were excluded, where would I get that answer? Are the minutes of all these various plenary sessions and experts' group meetings available, so one can trace back originally how the suggestion originated, how it became a directive and how the content of that directive was decided upon?