High Court judge has overturned the Information Commissioner’s decision requiring University College Cork to disclose to RTÉ certain information about a €100m loan agreement between the college and the European Investment Bank (EIB). The commissioner also made a material error in interpreting the “competitive prejudice” exemption from disclosure set out in the act, the judge held. The commissioner’s conclusion that UCC would not be harmed by disclosure of the material was “unsustainable”. A striking feature of this case was “how little” information UCC was seeking to exempt from disclosure, he said. The finance contract ran for 50 typed pages and the information UCC wished not to disclose ran to about 20 lines.

Source: Irish Examiner April 03, 2019 23:03 UTC