Seanad debates

Wednesday, 12 March 2003

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

 

I wonder why Government finds it necessary to be as directive as it clearly is by making it mandatory on a Secretary General to refuse the availability of that information, even in circumstances where it might be in the public interest. For example, I am not at all clear about how stands the public interest test in the latter part of section 19, if we are making it mandatory on the Secretary General to refuse the information in the first instance. It seems to me that the public interest test therefore becomes literally redundant.

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