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
10:25 am
Ciarán Lynch (Cork South Central, Labour)
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Before I bring in Deputy Timmins and revert to Deputy Fleming, I want to expand on a few points that have emerged. One of the difficulties we as parliamentarians have is that when we table parliamentary questions we get very much the same responses as the witnesses would get on foot of freedom of information requests.