Attorney-General Terry Connolly has acknowledged several ACT agencies have not responded within Freedom of Information Act deadlines to requests for access to documents about the Vitab affair. The requests were made by the Deputy Leader of the Opposition, Tony De Domenico, who said the $3.5 million payout by the ACT was a significant amount and more details should be made public. Mr Connolly said that under the Act the failure to met the deadline would be deemed to be a refusal for access. He thought that much of the request would have been refused in any event because the information was commercial-in-confidence. The delay had been caused by collating three FOI requests into one. Mr De Domenico could appeal the deemed refusal. Mr Connolly said he thought it inconsistent for the Liberals to be talking about openness in the light or recent events. Mr De Domenico said the ratepayers of the ACT had the right to know how their $3.5 million had been spent. Unless the Government released the information “”you could presume they have something to hide”.