Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 42:

In page 30, to delete lines 13 to 16.

This amendment proposes a deletion. It concerns an FOI refusal on the basis that, in the opinion of the head, it is frivolous, vexatious or forms part of a pattern of manifestly unreasonable requests from the same requester or different requesters who, in the opinion of the head, appear to have made their requests acting in concert. That leaves a huge amount of discretion to the head to define what is frivolous or vexatious and what constitutes an orchestrated pattern. Therefore, I propose a deletion of the clause.