Seanad debates

Wednesday, 12 March 2003

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

 

This Bill is being rushed through this month because the Government feels obliged to meet the April deadline, presumably because, once the five years are up, there will be an avalanche of requests to find out what the Government was doing this time five years ago. In order to meet the concerns of Government, we considered we would amend the existing Act by providing a full year wherein we could take a more serious look at the Bill and the operation of the 1997 Freedom of Information Act.

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