Authorisation for the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission to Instruct Legal Representatives: Motion Dail Éireann — 2021-04-21 ============================================================ 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 conduct the defence of proceedings initiated in the Workplace Relations Commission against members of the Joint Committee on Health in the matter of Francis Kearney v Deputy Colm Burke and others (Ref: CA—00042558-001), as regards matters arising solely out of the performance by the members concerned of their parliamentary functions as members of Dáil Éireann. --- 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/2021-04-21/debate/main Retrieved: 2026-08-14T04:49:11+00:00 Sitting date: 2021-04-21