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

1:25 pm

Ms Emily O'Reilly:

Let us say that a person goes to a public body or local authority and states that he or she wants all records relating to negotiations around a development plan, or anything at all for that matter. It would be very unlikely to happen but the entity in question might state that it does not believe that the records should be released or it might delay the process.

Then I could demand that it hands them over and to take matters to the extreme I could enter the premises and search-----

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