Derek McDowell (Labour)

This amendment, also proposed by the Information Commissioner, relates to section 32 of the original Act and allows the Minister to make regulations which would be added to the Third Schedule to the Act, which sets out those enactments of the Oireachtas which are automatically overridden by the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act 1997. This would allow the Minister, by regulation, to add further Acts of the Oireachtas which are automatically overridden and therefore extend the benefits of the original Act.