The Bill contains a series of technical measures to improve the operation of the Act. These include a strengthening of the administrative protections available to public bodies against manifestly unreasonable or vexatious requests. Senators may recall a case that came to light within the first year of FOI where a single individual made 466 requests, and was responsible for 101 internal review applications and 35 appeals to the Information Commissioner. Of these requests, 194 were made to a single public body. As the authors of a technical report on the Act noted in relation to this case "neither those who campaigned for FOI nor the majority of requesters who make reasonable use of the Act would have expected that a single individual would, through extreme usage of the Act, cost the taxpayer well in excess of £100,000 or €127,000 in an eight month period following its introduction." While it must be emphasised that the vast majority of requesters act responsibly and make good use of the Act, I am satisfied that measures must be taken to provide an enhanced degree of protection against those few individuals who choose to use FOI in a vexatious way.