Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 5 June 2013
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform
Non-Disclosure Provisions Under the Freedom of Information Act: Discussion with Information Commissioner
12:25 pm
Ms Emily O'Reilly:
There are processes in place. Each member state has a duty to inform anyone from another member state making an FOI request about the state of play as regards transparency and obligations in that state. The person can then choose whether to send the information. When European legislation is transposed into Irish law it is then regarded as Irish law and therefore should be subject to the same transparency and data protection obligations applying to everything else.
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