Seanad debates
Wednesday, 12 March 2003
Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2003: Committee Stage (Resumed).
A shift from saying "solely" to "primarily", that is to say, records created primarily for Government, allows, in my view, far too much discretion to people who are making decisions effectively to hide information. There is no requirement that the information should come to Government. It could have been drawn up or formulated with some broad notion that it is simply a policy option which might or might never end up at the Cabinet table.
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