Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The Minister has to make a judgment on fees and I accept that he does not want the system to be overwhelmed. For the most part, the average citizen does not customarily flood the system with freedom of information requests. It is not a standard thing for people to do. I accept the logic of the Minister's position to some extent in terms of not having the system overwhelmed, but if the Minister is to make an informed judgment on fees, a central piece of information would be to know the administrative burden of the fees process because there is a cost involved in that as well. If he does not have that information, will he seek it?