11.— (1) A person shall not disclose confidential information obtained by him or her while performing functions as a director or a member of the staff of, or an adviser or consultant to, F21[Uisce Éireann], or a member of the staff of such adviser or consultant unless he or she is duly authorised by F21[Uisce Éireann] to so do.

(2) Subsection (1) shall not operate to prohibit the disclosure of confidential information by a person referred to in that subsection to the Board.

(3) In this section “confidential information” includes—

(a) information that is expressed by F21[Uisce Éireann] to be confidential either as regards particular information or as regards information of a particular class or description, and

(b) proposals of a commercial nature or tenders submitted to F21[Uisce Éireann] by contractors, consultants or any other person.