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- Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2014)
Brendan Howlin: We will have to fire Deputy Fleming.
- Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2014)
Brendan Howlin: I will not comment on the specific case highlighted by the Deputy because I have no detail on it. I have no knowledge - good, bad or indifferent - of the case the Deputy instances. I will confine my response to the specific legislative provision and the amendment. Section 41, as contained in section 32 of the original 1997 Act, upholds the operation of specific confidentiality and...
- Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2014)
Brendan Howlin: It paves the way to promotion quickly.
- Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2014)
Brendan Howlin: I knew the Deputy knew it before I said it.
- Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2014)
Brendan Howlin: I am sure the Deputy has received enthusiastic support from Deputy McDonald.
- Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2014)
Brendan Howlin: I move amendment No. 75:In page 61, lines 6 and 7, to delete “Parts 1 or 2” and substitute “Part 1 or 2”.
- Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2014)
Brendan Howlin: I move amendment No. 76:In page 64, to delete lines 25 to 31 and substitute the following: “(g) a record relating to an audit, inspection, investigation or examination carried out by the Comptroller and Auditor General under the Comptroller and Auditor General Acts 1923 to 1993, the Exchequer and Audit Department Acts 1866 and 1921, or any other enactment, other...
- Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2014)
Brendan Howlin: I did not refer to that. I should have done so. I will refer to it.
- Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2014)
Brendan Howlin: With the indulgence of the Chair-----
- Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2014)
Brendan Howlin: I should have also referred to amendments Nos. 84 and 93 because they are in this group. The purpose of those amendments is to provide for an exemption from FOI for the records of child abuse bodies other than in regard to their administrative records. The bodies in question are the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse, the Residential Institutions Redress Board and the Residential...
- Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2014)
Brendan Howlin: This is only in regard to the Office of the Information Commissioner.
- Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2014)
Brendan Howlin: 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...
- Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2014)
Brendan Howlin: The Information Commissioner and the Information Commissioner relating to the European directive are one and the same; the same office handles it. I am trying to parallel the treatment of the deliberative process in regard to FOI appeals and regarding appeals under the European environmental regulations.
- Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2014)
Brendan Howlin: There is a list of bodies that contain such information that are all subject to the FOI process in regard to the European directive.
- Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2014)
Brendan Howlin: I move amendment No. 77:In page 64, line 32, to delete “review,”.
- Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2014)
Brendan Howlin: I move amendment No. 78:In page 64, lines 35 and 36, to delete “or the Office of the Information Commissioner”.
- Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2014)
Brendan Howlin: I move amendment No. 82:In page 70, lines 21 and 22, to delete "paragraph (ap)" and substitute "paragraph (as)".These amendments are being proposed to update references in this Bill to take account of changes made to other pieces of legislation, namely, the Central Bank Act 1942 and the Road Traffic Act 2014, since Committee Stage of the Freedom of Information Bill last November.
- Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2014)
Brendan Howlin: I move amendment No. 83:In page 70, to delete lines 23 to 29 and substitute the following:" "(as) for the purposes of contractual or institutional protection schemes as referred to in Article 113(7) of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 20131, or(at) to the Information Commissioner that is required for the performance of that...
- Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2014)
Brendan Howlin: I move amendment No. 84:In page 72, to delete lines 10 to 22 and substitute the following:"(b) the Central Bank of Ireland, insofar as it relates to—(i) records held by it containing—(I) confidential personal information relating to the financial or business affairs of any individual, or (II) confidential financial, commercial or regulatory information relating to the business...
- Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2014)
Brendan Howlin: I move amendment No. 85:In page 72, to delete lines 23 to 25.Amendments Nos. 85 to 87, inclusive, 94, 97, 101, 102 and 104 are being grouped for ease of discussion, although there are five separate issues involved. I will deal with them separately. The issues are, first, moving of the exemption for the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement; second, grant of part exemption for the...