Charity ‘unable to respond to FoI requests’

A Brothers of Charity service has said it appointed and trained a Freedom of Information officer, but a legal loophole means it is unable to respond to requests.

It has written to the Information Commissioner, Emily O’Reilly, and it wants to release documents but cannot not because the law was not updated to reflect its change of name in 2003.

The service told the Information Commissioner it is anxious to respond to the query, from the Irish Examiner, but if it released information it would not have immunity from legal challenges from third parties affected by the documents.