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

Photo of Michael NoonanMichael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I do not think what happened to the fees four or five years ago has had an impact. What has had a big impact is the policy in the Department of Finance, which is to publish practically everything. We keep putting up on the website the kind of data that, historically, was requested under freedom of information. A lot of the queries come from journalists and, as the information is on the website, they do not have to get it under FOI. That would be the big change.

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