Martin Mansergh (Fianna Fail)

While I go along with the Senator to a large extent, frivolous is not precisely the same as vexatious, which in turn is not necessarily precisely the same as manifestly unreasonable. Any public servant would be very slow to find any FOI requests from Senator Henry or any other Member of the Oireachtas to be manifestly unreasonable. One can turn the argument around. If it is accepted without contradiction that it is acceptable to exclude requests that are frivolous and vexatious, then I do not see the problem in also including manifestly unreasonable as all three are roughly on the same level.