Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)

——or if it does not fall within the definition of a public service body. I discussed that provision when I moved the technical amendments regarding the Companies Acts. Some commercial sponsored bodies could fall within the definition and for that reason there was an express exclusion in Schedule 1. Otherwise it is a matter of interpretation.

The definition of a qualifying office refers to the Taoiseach, Minister, Minister of State and former parliamentary secretaries, the predecessor post to that of the Minister of State. It does not refer to staff of the Houses of the Oireachtas.