Seanad debates
Thursday, 20 March 2003
Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2003: Report and Final Stages.
It has been pointed out that the additional restrictions relate not only to notes of advice or suggestion sent between Ministers, between Ministers and officials, or between officials and other officials, but also to more elementary matters such as oral and written parliamentary questions. I do not understand why a briefing note prepared for a Minister who is replying to a parliamentary question should be so sacrosanct that it needs to be protected by such a draconian measure.
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