Seanad debates
Thursday, 20 March 2003
Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2003: Report and Final Stages.
Senator O' Meara has chosen a bad amendment to say that this process is a waste of time because the amendment is entirely redundant and unnecessary. The notion, in practical terms, that the Secretary General of one Department will proscribe something exclusively and entirely belonging to another Department is unreal. One would have interdepartmental war if that were the case. It seems perfectly clearly drafted that the provision relates to matters brought forward in one Secretary General's jurisdiction.
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