Joe O'Toole (Independent)

If I was head of a Department and a request came in from a journalist, I might consider it an irritation that he or she should be looking for the information in question and might decide to hand it to my colleague, Dr. Henry, who deals with the particular section because she would know what to do with it. I might pass on the next request to somebody else. Eventually it goes up the line and happens in a way which is not amenable to the spirit of the Act, although there is nothing particularly bad about it.