Seanad debates
Wednesday, 12 March 2003
Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2003: Committee Stage (Resumed).
10:30 am
Derek McDowell (Labour)
That would be the case where one is clearly being refused part of the records, but what we are dealing with in this regard is a situation where one is not being clearly refused part of the records, where, in respect of part of the records, there is a neither confirm nor deny provision in place. Accordingly, there would not be anything as clear-cut as a blacking out of some information.
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