Seanad debates
Tuesday, 4 March 2003
Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2003: Second Stage (Resumed).
2:30 pm
Noel Coonan (Fine Gael)
The pendulum, which already leans in favour of Government against the citizen – namely, Joe Soap – will swing definitively and further in that direction. For the people to have an interest, to trust and to have an impact of any substance on the political process, they need to know we have nothing to hide. What does the Leader, her party and the Government have to hide?
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