Comptroller and Auditor General and Committees of the Houses of the Oireachtas (Special Provisions) Act, 1998

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Privilege of members, etc., of Public Accounts Committee.

11.—(1) The utterances, made otherwise than at meetings of the Committee, of members of the Committee for the purpose of the performance of their functions as such members shall be absolutely privileged and those utterances and documents, or records, in any form prepared by those members for the purpose of such performance, shall be absolutely privileged wherever and however published.

(2) The utterances, made otherwise than at meetings of the Committee, of advisers, officials and agents of the Committee for the purpose of the performance of their functions as such advisers, officials and agents shall be absolutely privileged and those utterances and documents, or records, in any form prepared by those persons for the purpose of such performance shall be absolutely privileged wherever and however published.

(3) In this section “the Committee” means the Committee of Public Accounts of Dáil Éireann and any subcommittee of that Committee.