Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I will make two final points. I thank the Cathaoirleach for his indulgence. It was good to hear the data on the number of cases in which the slip rule had been applied. If the witnesses were in a position to share it with the committee, that would be useful. I understand the logic of the rule, but a statutory declaration is of a different order than a letter. If the Department is going to go down this line, a bit of me wonders whether it provides clear guidance, particularly about what would be acceptable in the application of the slip rule in a document that was essentially a legal witnessing of an act.

Such a document is of a higher order and, therefore, the threshold of what is an acceptable slip should surely be higher, should it not?