Seanad debates
Wednesday, 8 October 2003
Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse: Statements (Resumed).
The Irish Times reported earlier this week that a request was made under the Freedom of Information Act 1997 to the Department of Education and Science and the Attorney General's office regarding correspondence on this matter. Most of the letters were not released to the journalists involved, yet two of them were published in the Comptroller and Auditor General's report. It is important that all the documentation is released now and I question the decision of both the Department of Education and Science and the Attorney General's office not to forward the letters to the journalists from a public interest perspective, particularly when two were published in the Comptroller and Auditor General's report.
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