Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I agree. I would like to address two recommendations. One relates to NAMA and the other to the credit institutions scheme, both of which relate to the Department of Finance. Her recommendation is that both institutions are covered by FOI within the protections of the Act. Can we start with the credit institutions scheme? I guess I have the same question on each. I will give her an example in a second but I would like to hear her thoughts on what should be available that is not available. For example, I imagine she would say that within NAMA, there are some things that should not be publicly available for legitimate reasons of commercial sensitivity. I will give an example of something with which I am dealing. It is not possible to find out how much money was guaranteed by the deposit guarantee scheme in September 2008 per institution. The reason given is commercial sensitivity. This happened five years ago and was a public guarantee of private funds. The Department of Finance maintains that this is commercially sensitive, which is absolute nonsense. Under NAMA-----