Seanad debates

Tuesday, 11 March 2003

Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2003: Committee Stage.

 

That is the reason we oppose the section. The vast majority of sections in the Bill will be opposed today. This is not a freedom of information Bill but a freedom from information Bill. It is indicative of a Government which wishes to wrap itself in a blanket of secrecy and prevent the public, through the media and public representatives, from knowing how it makes decisions. The Government is obsessed with controlling information on how it makes its decisions. It wants to make them behind closed doors and does not want anybody to know how they were made. It wants to present them through its 81 spin doctors in a controlled, leaked fashion and in such a way that it can determine public reaction and opinion. In that regard, it is wrong.

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