Seanad debates
Thursday, 20 March 2003
Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2003: Report and Final Stages.
The joint committee has dealt with aspects of the legislation and I have spent many hours considering the extension of the Bill. Senator McDowell may also have been involved as a Deputy in discussions of the operation of the legislation in each Department and the subsequent report to Government. The user group, the Office of the Information Commissioner and the Joint Committee on Finance and the Public Service should reasonably have been invited to contribute, but they were not asked for their views. That is what caused the problems last week. What was considered to be an anodyne and simple Bill did not go through in one day as we thought it would.
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