Seanad debates

Wednesday, 12 March 2003

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

 

The use of the word "solely" in the 1997 Act was deliberate. It was intended to limit the discretion which deciding officers would have. It was intended to ensure that the maximum possible level of information would become available in the public interest. It was intended specifically to give a stimulus to public debate and to put as much information in the public domain as possible within the confines, which we all acknowledge, of constitutional collective responsibility and so on.

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