James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)

It relates to restrictions on the rights under data protection regulations and the Freedom of Information Act. Given the advice of the Attorney General it was considered that the provisions initially drafted were way too broad. As a result, the amendments were needed to reduce the application of that particular legislation as it applied to the Data Protection Act and the Freedom of Information Act. The Attorney General's advice was to narrow it.

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