Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I will bank the questions from the next two speakers because we have such a workload today. We have a number of petitions which we will discuss later. Members will be aware that one of them discusses the possibility of freedom of information being extended to two bodies in future, namely, the Office of the Ombudsman and the Central Bank. To help us in our examination of the petition we would welcome the Ombudsman’s view on the request. I will go to Deputy Healy-Rae and Deputy Conaghan. We will take the three questions together and then Ms O’Reilly can answer them.