Denis O’Brien claim for Dáil committee minutes struck out

An application by businessman Denis O’Brien for court orders aimed at compelling a Dáil committee hand over to him minutes of two of its meetings last summer, plus other documents considered by the committee for those meetings, has been struck out at the High Court.

The meetings concern decisions by the Committee on Procedures and Privileges (CPP) that Social Democrats TD Catherine Murphy and Sinn Fein TD Pearse Doherty had not breached standing orders governing debates in the Oireachtas in their remarks concerning Mr O’Brien’s banking affairs with State-owned Irish Bank Resolution Corporation.

The discovery application was brought in preparation for Mr O’Brien’s High Court action against the CPP and State over those speeches. A hearing date for that action has yet to be fixed.