There is also a proposal to enhance the protection available for certain sensitive records related to international relations, security and defence. While the existing Act appears to provide, in subsection 24(2), a high level of protection for diplomatic communications and other records, the high level group identified difficulties in the interpretation of this section which have given rise to concern. The Government has, in turn, decided that certainty is needed to protect certain sensitive material so that Ireland's ability to function effectively at international level is not restricted by a lack of confidence about, for example, our ability to protect sensitive exchanges with other countries or international organisations.