Seanad debates

Wednesday, 12 March 2003

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

 

10:30 am

Derek McDowell (Labour)

I find Senator Maurice Hayes's remarks very interesting. They point to the difficulty that it would be possible for someone to make 98 unreasonable requests but the one on which he is finally refused under this section is reasonable. It would be possible to surmount this by simply substituting the word "and" for "or" in that section so that it would be frivolous, vexatious and part of a pattern of unreasonable requests.

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