Seanad debates
Thursday, 20 March 2003
Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2003: Report and Final Stages.
The Bill has not changed sufficiently during this process for me to continue to support it but I hope it will be in a form that I can wholeheartedly endorse when it returns to the House. I commend the purpose of protecting the public interest but people are also interested in information. I impute no motives to anybody and do not subscribe to theories of conspiracy and cover-up. The Bill would be much better if the definition of Government papers and background documents was much tighter.
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