Michael Ahern (Cork East, Fianna Fail)

Section 2 is a standard interpretation section that defines the words "record", "local authority", "factual information" and "week". These definitions are necessary to clarify and improve the operation of the FOI Act and I cannot accept the Senator's amendments. For the record, the amendments to which Senator O'Toole is referring have been available on the Internet for the past three weeks, so he could have seen them there if he had looked into it.