Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

The Office of the Information Commissioner. The Ombudsman is the Environmental Information Commissioner as well. In the same way as the Information Commissioner is dealing with normal queries under FOI, where it relates to environmental information under the European directive, the same exemptions would apply.

I might give a practical example. If the Information Commissioner determines to uphold a decision made by a deciding officer not to release information, it would be absurd if one could, under the FOI process, request the file containing the very information the Information Commissioner has decided not to release.

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