Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

-----and set 20 civil servants to work, that would not be the intended use of the provisions. People will not be excluded from doing normal trawls, but we should not embed that as a central function of the Bill. All the records covered by the Acts are available for FOI requests, subject to the legislative protections in respect of personal information to which I have referred. There is nothing in the Bill preventing the General Register Office or any other public body from giving access to personal information, provided it is done in compliance with the legislation. I believe this meets the full intention. I hope the concerns of Senator Quinn are fully assuaged by what I have said.