Michael Ahern (Cork East, Fianna Fail)

With regard to the section, the purpose of this technical consequential amendment is to ensure that, where access is granted to parts of records and there is a refusal to confirm or deny the existence or non-existence of a record under the provisions of sections 19, 20 or 21 of the Bill, public bodies are not obliged to disclose the existence or non-existence of a record in a notification to a request under section 8(1) of the principal Act.