Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 20 March 2013
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform
Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2012: Discussion with Centre for Public Scrutiny
2:35 pm
Mr. Ed Hammond:
Yes. The general consensus is that it works quite well, all things considered. There is dissent from a number of people. Famously, Tony Blair said in his memoir the one decision that he most regretted about his time as Prime Minister was introducing the Freedom of Information Act, which is interesting.
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