James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The agency would have significant investigate and prosecutorial powers. Documents gathered for those purposes will not be subject to an FOI because they will be necessary in the investigation and prosecution of a licenceholder, for example. It would also undermine the tenets of any prosecution if documents seized during a prosecution or investigation were released to the public. That would be standard, for example, in any Garda or HSE investigation. The FOI is as wide as we believe it can be without hindering investigations or prosecutions where documents would need to be withheld.