Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 28 February 2013
63. Deputy Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin asked the Minister for Finance the safeguards that are in place with regard to staff at Irish Bank Resolution Corporation who have been re-employed by the special liquidator to prevent privileged information being passed to potential purchasers of IBRC assets during the liquidation period. [10578/13]
View answerI have been informed that in addition to the policies and procedures that have been put in place by the Special Liquidators to ensure that no privileged information leaves IBRC (in Special Liquidation), employees owe a common law duty of confidentiality such that they cannot use confidential information obtained during the course of their employment to the detriment of their (former) employer. In addition Ethics in Public Office Acts apply to current and former executives and other office holders in the IBRC where the salary earned by those employees is not less than the maximum salary of a higher executive officer (general service grade, Class B PRSI) in the Civil Service (c.€55,415). Codes of Conduct issued under these Acts require that former office holders should act in a way which ensures an unfair advantage would not be conferred in a new appointment, by virtue of for example, access to official information the office holder previously enjoyed.
