Seanad debates
Wednesday, 28 May 2003
Companies (Auditing and Accounting) Bill 2003: Committee Stage.
10:30 am
Maurice Hayes (Independent)
The Senator's point is reasonable because it would be wrong, and damaging to the intent of the legislation, if people were able to acquire the commercial confidential information of a particular firm simply by using the FOI Act. As Senator McDowell said, there is a distinction to be made between the operation of the organisation and the information on which it makes its decision.
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