Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 18 February 2015
Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance
Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Office of the Appeal Commissioners (Revised)
5:00 pm
Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
It is still a major dip in regard to parliamentary questions.
The area I am most interested in is freedom of information requests. We have seen a steady decline in the number of freedom of information requests, from 265 in 2012 to 220 in 2013 and 148 to the end of November 2014. Unless there was a massive surge in December, we are going to see quite a substantial fall for 2014. I ask the Minister to comment on that and also on whether the changes to fees in the FOI legislation have had an impact, or whether there has been a spike or an increase as a result.
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