Charlie McCreevy (Kildare North, Fianna Fail)

I am not accepting this amendment in its present form. The issue is being examined by me.

Section 3 of the principal Act contains a provision which allows the Minister for Finance to make regulations for the purpose of giving full effect to the Freedom of Information Act in order that the further legal clarification that appears in this provision may permit regulations to be made or to provide that section 17 or 18 can be invoked by parents, guardians or the next-of-kin of persons unable to direct the exercise of their rights under this section. Such mechanisms operate at present in relation to the right of access to records under section 6 of the Act.