There is provision for offences by bodies corporate. There provision for proceedings in court.<\/p>\n
A prosecution for an offence under the Act may be brought only by or with the consent of the DPP.<\/p>\n
The discontinuation of a Part 2 inquiry or the termination of other committee business or the dissolution of either House will not prevent any court proceedings from being taken or terminate any on-going court proceedings.<\/p>\n
The 2013 Act contains restrictions on the Freedom of Information Acts 1997 and 2003.<\/p>\n\n
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Purpose of Act The purpose of the House of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Act is to establish a comprehensive statutory framework for the Oireachtas to conduct inquiries within the current constitutional framework as set down by the Supreme Court in Maguire v Ardagh [2002] 1 IR 385 (The Abbeylara judgment). The Abbeylara case […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[379],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28372"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28372"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29318,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28372\/revisions\/29318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}