Brendan Ryan (Labour)

The Minister is trivialising this issue. The Bill states "the audit committee shall ... report in writing at least once a year to the Commissioner on those matters and on its activities in the previous year, and provide the Minister with a copy of each report.". It is not envisaged that the committee will produce reports every week. I would not be unhappy if the Minister had reasons some reports on individual matters should not be published. However, there is no reason the annual report to the Garda Commissioner and the Minister cannot be laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas.