Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 6 February 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform

Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2012: Discussion

1:05 pm

Photo of Seán FlemingSeán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

It should be passed on to the secretariat because other people will want it also. There is significant information in it. Being upfront, I did not get it all because I did not have the chance to see it.

On the issue of the section 32 review, can Ms O'Reilly give us a pen picture? In the letter she sent to us, she said that section 2 of the Act provides for the mandatory refusal of access to certain records whose disclosure is prohibited or whose non-disclosure is authorised by other enactments. How many items are included in that? Is it dozens or hundreds?

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