Seanad debates
Tuesday, 4 March 2003
Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2003: Second Stage.
One requester asked a couple of years ago for access to the diaries of a number of civil servants and Ministers. There were hundreds of records. Every diary and thousands of pages of documentation had to be read through, assessed and considered for release and personal or sensitive material deleted. The cost of processing that request was probably well over €10,000, but the cost to the requester, including photocopying, amounted to around €600. I understand those charges were appealed.
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