Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

Sometimes I wonder why I bother addressing issues because the more one tries to be accommodating, the more the Deputy tries to nitpick. There are no exceptions to FOI in respect of this legislation. There are the general exceptions which the Freedom of Information Act itself applies with regard to commercially sensitive information. There is no change. The normal rules of FOI will apply. Where there are commercially sensitive data in any application, the deciding officer will have to have regard to that under the existing overarching FOI legislation.

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