Mr. Colm Ó Mongáin:

The opportunity is there now, more than ever, when documents can be published online so that a Deputy can point to the raw information and say that many interpretations can be derived from this. The best example I can think of does not relate to the Freedom of Information Act, but what the Boston Globe did when it uncovered a mass of information as to how the Boston archdiocese had dealt with child abuse claims. There simply were not enough journalistic resources in the Boston Globe to deal with it in its totality, so the information was put up online by the Boston Globe. People who had been affected by it were able to go through that and judge, through the prism of their own personal circumstances, how the archdiocese of Boston had acted. In a way, therefore, it is nearly in a Deputy's interest to get as much of the raw information, and its context, out. Therefore, when a credible explanation is presented in the public domain one can at least know about, or can confidently point to, easily accessible sources that contradict the misinterpretation, as one would see it, of that information in the public domain.