The Act of 2014 is amended by the substitution of the following section for section 27:

"27.

(1) Subject to subsection (2), the chairperson of the Commission or a member of the Commission shall, at the request in writing of a Committee, attend before it to give account for the general administration of the Commission.

(2) The chairperson of the Commission or a member of the Commission shall not be required to give account before a Committee in relation to -

(a) any matter which is or has been, or which the Commission has reason to think may in the future be, the subject of proceedings before an adjudication officer or before a court or tribunal in the State,

(b) any matter specified in paragraphs (a) to (d) of section 10(7),

(c) a determination in relation to a merger or acquisition under section 21(2) of the Act of 2002, or

(d) the powers and functions of adjudication officers.

(3) Where the chairperson or a member of the Commission is of the opinion that a matter in respect of which he or she is requested to give an account before a committee is a matter to which subsection (2) applies, he or she shall inform the Committee of that opinion and the reasons for the opinion and, unless the information is conveyed to the committee at a time when he or she is before it, the information shall be so conveyed in writing.