Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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Will our guests comment on the particular areas where journalists have been prevented from obtaining information and in the context of which it is important to obtain such information in the public interest? I am particularly concerned with regard to commercial sensitivity being used as a catchall mechanism to prevent all sorts of information which I would have thought to be in the public interest - particularly that relating to public private partnerships, semi-State bodies and matters involving the State's finances and the use of public money - from being released. Will our guests provide some examples in respect of this matter and comment in greater detail on it?

I did not catch the reference to environmental matters at the very beginning of the presentation.