Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 13 February 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Benefacts Project: Discussion
2:10 pm
Mr. Tom Boland:
The board is very much seized of this issue and will be holding an official meeting on future strategy in the next couple of weeks. That is very much an issue we need to address. The idea of selling information in order to support what Benefacts does is very much in the air. Exactly how it is to be done, to whom it is to be sold and the absolute safeguards that are to be put in place are issues to be teased out at board level. I would like to point out, in response to the point about protecting information, that all of this data is already publically available. What Benefacts does is draw it together into a much more accessible, readable form, from which conclusions can be drawn.