Grace Boland (Dublin Fingal West, Fine Gael)

The last time Ms Nugent was before the committee, I highlighted that paragraph 8.4 of the code of practice for governance of State bodies provides that a State body "should not enter into confidentiality agreements which preclude it from disclosing details of the settlement reached in the financial statements, save in exceptional circumstances and on foot of legal advice ...". I asked Ms Nugent to provide us with the grounds on which the legal advice was provided that led CHI to decide to enter into a non-disclosure agreement with its former CEO. Will Ms Nugent tell us here today now what those grounds were?