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No. 89 of 2013

Freedom of Information Bill 2013

Public bill · Government · Presented

The Freedom of Information Bill 2013 would restore and expand the public’s right to obtain records held by public bodies, including certain organisations receiving substantial State funding, while allowing people to correct inaccurate personal information. It would reverse major restrictions introduced in 2003, require clearer publication of information, and retain independent reviews by the Information Commissioner, while protecting privacy, national security, commercial confidentiality and other sensitive material.

Formal long title

Bill entitled an Act to enable members of the public to obtain access, to the greatest extent possible consistent with the public interest and the right to privacy, to information in the possession of public bodies, other bodies in receipt of funding from the State and certain other bodies and to enable persons to have personal information relating to them in the possession of such bodies corrected and, accordingly, to provide for a right of access to records held by such bodies, for necessary exceptions to that right and for assistance to persons to enable them to exercise it, to provide for the independent review both of decisions of such bodies relating to that right and of the operation of this Act generally (including the proceedings of such bodies pursuant to this Act) and, for those purposes, to provide for the continuance of the Office of Information Commissioner and to define its functions, to provide for the publication by such bodies of certain information about them relevant to the purposes of this Act, to repeal the Freedom of Information Act 1997 and the Freedom of Information (Amendment) Act 2003, to amend the Central Bank Act 1942, to amend the Official Secrets Act 1963, to repeal certain other enactments, and to provide for related matters

Last updated 12 April 2018

Sponsor
  • Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform Primary
Progress
  • First Stage
    Dáil
  • Second Stage
    Dáil
  • Committee Stage
    Dáil
  • Report Stage
    Dáil
  • Fifth Stage
    Dáil
  • Second Stage
    Seanad
  • Committee Stage
    Seanad
  • Report Stage
    Seanad
  • Fifth Stage
    Seanad Enacted
  • Enacted
    Enacted
Debates
  • Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages
    Seanad
  • Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage
    Seanad
  • Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Second Stage
    Seanad
  • Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Order for Report Stage
    Dáil
  • Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Report Stage
    Dáil
  • Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage
    Dáil
  • Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed)
    Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform
  • Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage
    Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform
  • Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed)
    Dáil
  • Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Referral to Select Committee
    Dáil
  • Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Order for Second Stage
    Dáil
  • Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Second Stage
    Dáil

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