Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Independent) | Oireachtas source

We have had the arguments about these amendments already. There is commercially sensitive information in these organisations which should exempt them from freedom of information and there are sufficient safeguards in the legislation to achieve this. I am not in favour of an approach which gives them full protection, however. It is important and useful that there should be bits and pieces where these organisations are open to freedom of information to remind them they work for the citizens ultimately. I am opposed in principle to blanket exemptions. Reasonable exemptions are already covered under the Bill.

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