Pat Buckley (Cork East, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

It is interesting. Regardless of the Department, as we are dealing with our Defence Forces the scope should nearly be brought out to the limit, whereas as Mr. Justice Mahon said, it stops at sensitive information on military operations or peacekeeping operations, or whatever. It seems so constricted. I was asking those questions because I am interested. If a person made a protected disclosure to the ombudsman outside the timeframe and provided within that the reason he or she was unable to meet the deadline, can the office accept that? It is a tricky one.