Seanad debates
Tuesday, 11 March 2003
Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2003: Committee Stage.
There are people seeking information and the quality of their access is being extraordinarily restricted and constrained by what is being proposed. Nobody has denied that. It may well be that there are difficulties. It may well be that people have to come to certain conclusions. It may well be that the officer must say it is hard to decide whether a file, containing information about a certain group of people but not mentioning Joe O'Toole by name, is telling the world in no uncertain terms what a not very nice person I am, for example, but because my name is not contained in it, then the file does not become accessible.
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