FoI Act - Coalition’s cloak of secrecy
The revelations made by a Dublin newspaper yesterday in relation to an unpublished report by Ombudsman and Information Commissioner Emily O’Reilly, which it claimed to have seen, are very disturbing.
According to that report, the Government has introduced significant changes to the FoI Act surreptitiously, without consulting her office, as well as the fact 15 Government departments have excluded certain bodies and information from its provisions.
