Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 9 December 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

Ombudsman and Information Commissioner: Commissioner Designate

Mr. Ger Deering:

The Deputy is absolutely right. One of the things we suffer from sometimes is we take legislation as being the maximum we can do. It usually is the minimum we are required to do but in the vast majority of areas people can go beyond what the legislation actually requires them to do.