Kathleen Funchion (Carlow-Kilkenny, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 14:

In page 11, line 32, to delete “information” where it firstly occurs and substitute “records”.

I will speak to amendment No. 14 and then I might come back in on amendment No. 29. I think amendment No. 29 is the one to which I was referring earlier that we can withdraw now on the basis that the restrictive timeframe has been removed. Amendment No. 14 is exactly as it says. It aims to capture the wider range by the use of the word "records" rather than the word "information". I suppose we all know - it was discussed on all Stages, on this Stage but particularly on Second Stage and Committee Stage - that there is distrust, understandably so, on the part of people who have survived these institutions. I suppose there is a feeling that the word "records" encompasses everything rather than the word "information", which could be subject to being picked and chosen.

I will come back in on amendments Nos. 29 to 58, inclusive, if that is okay. I want to check that I am right in what I am thinking about them.

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