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Annual report of Chief Inspector
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269. (1) The Chief Inspector shall, not later than 3 months after the end of each year, or before a date as may be specified by the Minister, submit to the Minister an annual report on the performance of the Chief Inspector’s functions and on such other related matters during the previous year.
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(2) The Minister shall, subject to the submission under subsection (1) and subsection (3) and (4), then cause a copy of the report to be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as practicable after he or she receives the report.
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(3) Any part of the report to be laid by the Minister before each House of the Oireachtas pursuant to this Act that would—
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(a) prejudice the security of a designated asylum border facility or the safety of a person at that facility,
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(b) prejudice the interests of national security, the Chief Inspector having consulted with the Minister in this regard,
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(c) purport to assign criminal or civil liability, not determined by a court, tribunal or commission of investigation, to an individual identifiable to the public, or
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(d) prejudice the rights of an individual identifiable to the public to vindicate his or her good name,
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shall be omitted, amended or redacted by the Minister so as not to do so.
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(4) In any annual report of the Chief Inspector where matters are omitted, amended or redacted under subsection (3), a statement to that effect shall be attached to the report concerned, when it is being laid before each House of the Oireachtas.
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(5) Notwithstanding subsection (1), if, but for this subsection, the first annual report under that subsection would relate to a period of less than 6 months, that annual report shall relate to that period and to the year immediately following that period and shall be prepared as soon as may be, but not later than 3 months, after the end of that year.
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