ESCAPING TO FREEDOM

Citizens have access to details after NAMA was ruled a ‘public authority’ and subject to certain information requests, write Gavin Sheridan and Fred Logue

SUNLIGHT is the best disinfectant,” said former US Supreme Court justice Louis Brandeis. He was right, and over the decades since he said it, countries around the world have enacted what is generally called ‘right to information’ legislation, which allows citizens to request information from their governments.

It was with this in mind that I sent a request to NAMA in February last year, seeking information from them on some of their activities.