Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)

The confidential communications with Oireachtas Members Bill has been promised. Increasingly, we have to seek permission from the Data Protection Commissioner before we can receive communication from State and semi-State agencies. This is a violation of everything we ever stood for. When we are elected, we are given permission to speak on behalf of the public. I would like to ask the Taoiseach whether it might be possible in the context of the Bill in question, which is No. 109 on the C list, to review the impact-----

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