Michael McDowell (Independent) | Oireachtas source

-----or a large amount of compensation was awarded or somebody who had been suspended for a period of time was reinstated and there had been High Court proceedings concerning all of that, the person in charge of the general administration of that office may not only say he or she cannot be asked to give an account, he or she may refuse point-blank to do so. That person could be brought to the High Court and the court would apply that section so as to excuse all accountability. I do not understand how that is a healthy provision, whether or not it has been applied to any other body in any other statute, and whether or not any House or committee of the Oireachtas has considered in detail whether it is an appropriate exclusion from accountability.