Charlie McCreevy (Kildare North, Fianna Fail)

I will not accept this amendment either. This section provides for a period of four weeks from the initiation of third party consultation in burdensome cases. It is believed that in cases involving significant amounts of records or a large number of third parties who need to be consulted under section 29 of the principal Act, two weeks gives an insufficient amount of time for decision makers to be able to properly locate, examine and identify records appropriate to form a consultation, consider the various public interest arguments involved and locate and contact all third parties. A period of four weeks is considered more appropriate for compliance and two weeks not reasonably possible. I am satisfied that this provision is reasonable. Therefore, I do not propose to accept the amendment.

Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.