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Seanad: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2003: Committee Stage. (11 Mar 2003)

Brian Hayes: I know the Minister is anxious to reply to the question put on this side. Would it be helpful to get his reply?

Seanad: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2003: Committee Stage. (11 Mar 2003)

Brian Hayes: I thank the Leader for her intervention.

Seanad: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2003: Committee Stage. (11 Mar 2003)

Brian Hayes: Not even the Minister of State is saying that. He is prepared to accept some of the recommendations.

Seanad: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2003: Committee Stage. (11 Mar 2003)

Brian Hayes: I thank the Minister of State for his direct answer to the question I asked about what the Department of Finance did when it received the information from the commissioner. He says that the Information Commissioner put it on the Internet. That is useful. Why, therefore, was there no reference to this at any point in the speech by the Minister for Finance or the summation by the Minister of...

Seanad: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2003: Committee Stage. (11 Mar 2003)

Brian Hayes: For the purpose of clarity on this, where new information has come to light in the course of a debate, while the Chair may not be obliged to take those Committee Stage amendments, account must surely be taken of the fact that we were handed this report only this afternoon, which would require Senators on this side of the House to frame new amendments.

Seanad: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2003: Committee Stage. (11 Mar 2003)

Brian Hayes: This is the anonymous Internet.

Seanad: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2003: Committee Stage. (11 Mar 2003)

Brian Hayes: All Members have the right to introduce legislation, not just the Government.

Seanad: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2003: Committee Stage. (11 Mar 2003)

Brian Hayes: We are asking questions on the section.

Seanad: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2003: Committee Stage. (11 Mar 2003)

Brian Hayes: On 5 February.

Seanad: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2003: Committee Stage. (11 Mar 2003)

Brian Hayes: We are clear on this.

Seanad: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2003: Committee Stage. (11 Mar 2003)

Brian Hayes: Once the principal Act is amended one can bring forward any amendment.

Seanad: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2003: Committee Stage. (11 Mar 2003)

Brian Hayes: In reply to an earlier question from Senator Henry, the Minister of State said that when the Department looked at the commissioner's proposals concerning the new incorporation of the word "person", there were, to use his words, legal and practical difficulties in the application of this. Will he illuminate what some of those difficulties are? When the Department had discourse with the...

Seanad: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2003: Committee Stage. (11 Mar 2003)

Brian Hayes: We are all trying to be constructive. The Minister of State used the term practical and legal difficulties in response to the proposal on this new use of "person" made by the commissioner on 5 February. Can he give some examples of that? What was their response to the Department's observations on it?

Seanad: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2003: Committee Stage. (11 Mar 2003)

Brian Hayes: To be clear, I am referring to section 2 and to page 75 of the Information Commissioner's report. He proposed this amendment on 5 February. I have not taken in the import of the Minister's reply on practical legal difficulties. When he reverted to the commissioner's office, what was the reply? If the only example he can offer is in respect of whether a journalist is acting on his own behalf...

Seanad: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2003: Committee Stage. (11 Mar 2003)

Brian Hayes: They are questions on the section.

Seanad: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2003: Committee Stage. (11 Mar 2003)

Brian Hayes: As to who owns the information and who is in possession of it?

Seanad: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2003: Committee Stage. (11 Mar 2003)

Brian Hayes: For an individual and a body corporate?

Seanad: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2003: Committee Stage. (11 Mar 2003)

Brian Hayes: The Senator loves it. He reads it all the time.

Seanad: Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy. (6 Mar 2003)

Brian Hayes: This sad occasion represents the second time this week that the House has mourned the death of a former colleague. On this occasion I refer to the distinguished former Seanadóir, Séamus de Brún. I did not know Séamus de Brún, but my colleagues have told me that he was a formidable Senator and that he treated the affairs of the House with the utmost seriousness. As the Leader said, he was...

Seanad: Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy. (6 Mar 2003)

Brian Hayes: He had a hard job separating the two of them.