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Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (5 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: Perhaps for drafting purposes it could be corrected on Report Stage.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (5 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: I am sure there will be a Koran-----

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (5 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: How would that work in practice, given that a committee can only make findings of fact? To find that someone had been disingenuous or baldly lying before the committee is a value judgment. Is it that the committee would make a recommendation to the DPP that the matter needs to be investigated and that the DPP would make the value judgment?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (5 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: The difficulty with a bank losing its licence, for example, is that it would have very serious repercussions for staff, customers-----

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (5 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: Staff would lose their jobs. It might be possible to do something regarding the board of directors-----

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (5 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: That is understandable.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (5 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: He is like Columbo - "Just one more thing."

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (5 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: When a committee meeting begins, the Chairman will say, "I wish to advise the witnesses that by virtue of section such and such, bracket 2, bracket, or (2)(1)..." That is what we are talking about.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (5 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: It sets out rules of privilege and the framework-----

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (5 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: I thank the Minister's officials for attending the committee, the members for their co-operation in ensuring we concluded business today and the committee secretariat for facilitating us so late into the evening. I am sure tomorrow morning we will read about ourselves on the front pages in regard to all the parliamentary work we did today.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Message to Dáil (5 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: In accordance with Standing Order 87 the following message will be sent to the Clerk of the Dáil: The Select Sub-committee on Public Expenditure and Reform has completed its consideration of the Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill 2013 and has made amendments thereto.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Non-Disclosure Provisions Under the Freedom of Information Act: Discussion with Information Commissioner (5 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: We suspended before lunch for a brief recess. We will proceed with item No. 9 on today's agenda, the third review by the Information Commissioner of reports on section 32 non-disclosure provisions under the Freedom of Information Act 1997. I welcome the Information Commissioner, Ms Emily O'Reilly, who is accompanied by Mr. Stephen Rafferty. The meeting will proceed with Ms O'Reilly making...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Non-Disclosure Provisions Under the Freedom of Information Act: Discussion with Information Commissioner (5 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: I will take questions in sequence in a 12-minute round of questions and answers. Before commencing, however, I would like to bring Ms O'Reilly back to her reference to her previous engagement with this committee in 2006. She expresses some disappointment with that meeting. Could she elaborate on that? It was before my time in the House and certainly before I became Chairman of this committee.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Non-Disclosure Provisions Under the Freedom of Information Act: Discussion with Information Commissioner (5 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: To elaborate on that, in her opening address Ms O'Reilly mentioned 36 secrecy clauses from a total of 150 identified on which she disagreed with the Minister's assessment. Forgetting about the disagreement with the Minister, are those ratios still the same? Does Ms O'Reilly's concerns about those 36 secrecy clauses still exist, or has the ratio changed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Non-Disclosure Provisions Under the Freedom of Information Act: Discussion with Information Commissioner (5 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: They have not been addressed since 2006.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Non-Disclosure Provisions Under the Freedom of Information Act: Discussion with Information Commissioner (5 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: Given that most of the present committee members were not Members of the House in 2006, would Ms O'Reilly summarise those 36 issues? I do not expect details of each of the 36.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Non-Disclosure Provisions Under the Freedom of Information Act: Discussion with Information Commissioner (5 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: A few more financial bodies have been created since then, such as NAMA.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Non-Disclosure Provisions Under the Freedom of Information Act: Discussion with Information Commissioner (5 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: The Deputy is dead right.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Non-Disclosure Provisions Under the Freedom of Information Act: Discussion with Information Commissioner (5 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: I have two questions to clarify a point made by Deputy Mary Lou McDonald while summing up. In the previous round of this process there were 150 situations where there was disagreement between the Information Commissioner and the then Government. From what Ms O'Reilly has stated, I assume she has received a written explanation of the reason the Government of the day or the Department was in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Non-Disclosure Provisions Under the Freedom of Information Act: Discussion with Information Commissioner (5 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: Yes, but written explanations were received from each Department of the reason it had disagreed with the Information Commissioner in this regard.