Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 7 November 2023
897. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of statements of interests for the purposes of section 19 filed by his special advisers in 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023; and if he will provide a schedule of same. [47640/23]
View answerFor the purpose of Section 19 of the Ethics in Public Office Act,1995, where there are no interests to disclose, there is no obligation on a Special Advisor to furnish a Nil Statement and no requirement on an Office holder to lay a nil statement of a Special Advisor before the Oireachtas.
As such, there was no statements of interests filed in respect of the Special Advisors in this Department during the years 2020,2021,2022 and to date in 2023.
