Michael McDowell (Independent) | Oireachtas source

-----or of someone who receives the information from a leak. The Minister has not dealt with this. He is either serious about this or he is not. Amendment No. 70, which is in the names of Senators Boyhan, Craughwell and me, makes it very clear that we have no objection to a summary disposal in the District Court of such an offence. The proposed section 28(2) of the amendment states:

Any person who knowingly discloses or makes public in any manner any information that is secret within the meaning of subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction thereof—(a) in summary proceedings before the District Court to a fine or to six months imprisonment,

(b) on indictment to a term of imprisonment not exceeding five years or to a fine or to both.