Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Yes, or that for whatever reason it is not providing certain information under freedom of information, it is the Information Commissioner who essentially has the final say and insists that citizen X is provided with the information. At the moment a body can have a dispute with the Information Commissioner on the provision of information and under law the Information Commissioner can say that he or she is making a binding ruling. The Office of the Information Commissioner is in dispute with bodies all the time and essentially has the final say. Is there any reason it should not have the final say in determining whether a body is in or out?

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