Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

It is a fair point but I do not wish to spend a lot of money asking every agency to track the proportion of the time spent to send out a fee notice or to collect a fee. I will have regard to it, now that the Deputy has made that point. I believe, as a general principle, that what I have set out is logical and reasonable. We are charging for base, non-personal information a fee that covers 4% of the cost of providing that information. I do not believe that is punitive, but I am willing to hear the views of people who believe it is. Second, the real issue I discerned from looking at the data was with the appeals.