Brendan Ryan (Labour)

When it is reversed, everything that the Government is so carefully concealing from public view will become a matter of public record again. My party drove this legislation through an unwilling Oireachtas when the previous partner in government which conceded everything resolutely refused to concede on freedom of information. Deputy Quinn, my former party leader, described in detail in the Dáil the resistance of the current Minister for Foreign Affairs to freedom of information in the negotiations which led to the formation of the 1992 coalition Government.