256. Deputy Peter Burke asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the rationale in the Companies (Accounting) Bill 2016 for continuing the requirement for disclosure of directors' emoluments in small company financial statements while exempting micro companies from that requirement, in contrast to the equivalent legislation applying in Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK, which exempts both small and micro companies from the disclosure requirement (details supplied); if she has raised this issue with the representative groups for SMEs here and business representative bodies; if she has discussed the proposed requirement with the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner; if her attention has been drawn to concerns that this requirement will result in the publication of commercially sensitive and personal data relating to individual business owners, which are not required of other persons that are subject to PAYE on their personal earnings; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36709/16]

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256. Deputy Peter Burke asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the rationale in the Companies (Accounting) Bill 2016 for continuing the requirement for disclosure of directors' emoluments in small company financial statements while exempting micro companies from that requirement, in contrast to the equivalent legislation applying in Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK, which exempts both small and micro companies from the disclosure requirement (details supplied); if she has raised this issue with the representative groups for SMEs here and business representative bodies; if she has discussed the proposed requirement with the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner; if her attention has been drawn to concerns that this requirement will result in the publication of commercially sensitive and personal data relating to individual business owners, which are not required of other persons that are subject to PAYE on their personal earnings; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36709/16]

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