Seanad debates
Thursday, 30 January 2003
Immigration Bill, 2002: Committee Stage (Resumed).
10:30 am
Joanna Tuffy (Labour)
I move amendment No. 19:
In page 6, paragraph (b) between lines 37 and 38, to insert the following:
"and by the insertion after subsection (5) of the following subsection:
'(6) Notwithstanding anything in this section the Tribunal shall make available to the public copies of its decisions regarding appeals under this Act with any publicly identifying information deleted unless the appellant so requests'.".
The purpose of this amendment is to ensure decisions of the tribunal would be made available to the public to ensure they were open and transparent and that the public was aware of what decisions were made. That would be reasonable while at the same time protecting the identities of applicants. Will the Minister comment?
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