Charlie McCreevy (Kildare North, Fianna Fail)

While I am not prepared to accept the amendment, I fully understand the concern to ensure that where a threat to a person's life or safety is being invoked to refuse a request and it is the requester's propensity to violence that is at issue, a public body and, where appropriate, the Information Commissioner should take care not to inform the requester that the relevant section is being invoked. I also understand and appreciate the dilemma faced by public bodies in relation to this sensitive and complex issue but there is no simple solution. This issue is receiving careful consideration at official level.

Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.