Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 74:

In page 61, to delete line 4 and substitute the following:“41. (1) The 52 non-disclosure provisions recommended for exclusion in Schedule 3, where the Information Commissioner disagreed with the views of the relevant Departments, shall be deleted from Schedule 3.

(2) A head shall refuse to grant an FOI request if—”.

We had a brief discussion on this subject on Committee Stage. It relates to enactments relating to non-disclosure of records. I gave a brief rundown of the different headings and terminology in the legislation. We are getting into difficult territory. As the Minister knows, under the existing freedom of information legislation, the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform is supposed to hold a five-year review. As far as I understand it, the committee has not lived up to its requirements. It is some time since this review was carried out.

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