Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

That is not normally the practice. No more than the advice of any lawyer to a client, if one is going to get the advice of the Attorney General to the Government as a client, one would have to open up the advice of all lawyers to their clients in regard to proceedings of this kind. That is something that would not be welcomed by the legal profession in terms of the fundamental principle of client-lawyer confidentiality.