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
12:25 pm
Sean Barrett (Independent)
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Is that what is needed? We can help with information in cases where it is thought people died and it was not recorded, or where the group wants to know what a person died from. This has come up in the case of the Magdalen laundries, as Deputy McDonald pointed out. The State cannot lose people. People are entitled to know where their friends have gone, why they died and the causes of death.