Clerk to the Committee:

I can only go by my own experience in this organisation, which dates back a long time. The recording is kept by the clerk to the committee. I know of one instance during a previous Dáil when a Member of the Oireachtas, a then member of another committee, sought access and was refused. The recording would purely be kept for the purpose of the Oireachtas and would be in the possession of the clerk. For wont of a better word, it would be an Oireachtas document, in that it would be owned by the Oireachtas. Other than by going to the courts, no one could take it and give it to anyone else.