Finance documents confidentiality
Martin presses the Taoiseach on why the Department of Finance retains rights over documents supplied to the inquiry; the Taoiseach says all material was sent unredacted and that confidentiality can be overridden by the commission.
What about the statement from the Department of Finance?
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The Department of Finance has already sent all the material without redaction. The legal advice it has is that any matter of confidentiality is a matter for the commission to overrule in the public interest.
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Why would the Department of Finance be hiding anything?
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Obviously, there are reasons for that. In this case, the judge has pointed out his difficulty.
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Why would the Department of Finance be hiding documents?
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It is. It is asserting the right to withhold documents from third parties.