Houses of the Oireachtas Commission Authorisation to instruct Legal Representatives: Motion Dail Éireann — 2021-09-28 ============================================================ Francis Noel Duffy (GP), Dublin South-West I move: That Dáil Éireann, pursuant to section 4(2)(f) (iv) of the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission Acts 2003 to 2018, hereby authorises the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission to defend proceedings initiated against Dáil Éireann and to instruct legal counsel in that regard in the matter of Jonathan Dowdall v. The Director of Public Prosecutions, the Minister for Justice and Equality, Dáil Éireann, Ireland and the Attorney General (High Court: 2021/657/JR) . --- Source: Houses of the Oireachtas. Licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The Official Report is revised after first publication; the fetch timestamp below identifies the version quoted. Record URI: https://data.oireachtas.ie/akn/ie/debateRecord/dail/2021-09-28/debate/main Retrieved: 2026-08-14T04:49:37+00:00 Sitting date: 2021-09-28