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

Cuirim fáilte roimh bheirt agaibh anseo inniu. I welcome our guests and it is great to have both before the committee.

I wish to return to some of Ms O'Reilly's opening comments. She noted that by the end of 2009 only nine Departments had returned the reports as required under the FOI Act for the purposes of a review. To what does she attribute the delay by these Departments that returned reports late? I note the Department of Finance was three years late in returning its report. How did that come to pass?