Seanad debates

Thursday, 3 July 2003

I support the call for further debate on the Freedom of Information Act. The charges are wrong and the Act should be re-examined. I received notification of a request for information about the various allowances etc. that we get, as I imagine everybody in the House did. It is a perfectly fair request but when I rang to ask from where the request came, I was told that information was confidential. It is absurd that the newspapers can poke around legitimately. We should know which newspaper is involved in order that we can watch out for it and correct it when it is wrong, as it almost invariably is, or when it misinterprets facts because it does not understand the staged fashion in which the payments are claimed.

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