Seanad debates
Tuesday, 4 March 2003
Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2003: Second Stage.
Oral advice is not generally as systematic as written advice and it cannot be reviewed afterwards. One cannot take oral advice home and people's memories are fallible. Written advice needs to be set out in a logical, reasoned form and it can be reviewed. Some of that has fallen by the wayside under the operation of freedom of information legislation.
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