Seanad debates

Wednesday, 12 March 2003

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

 

Cabinet memoranda are a separate issue. The Bill proposes that where the Government establishes a committee of officials to advise it or draw up a report, its material will be exempt from the Act. This is completely wrong. It turns the Act on its head and is at the core of the proposed close-down of the Cabinet. The Bill falls apart, not on the extension of the time period for access to documents to ten years or the other matters we have discussed, but on the proposed redefinition of Government.

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