Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 29 March 2018

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised)

10:00 am

Photo of Leo VaradkarLeo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I do not object. I do not have a role in deciding what is released under freedom of information legislation. The way that it works is that there is a designated official in each Department who decides whether or not something is released. If it is not released, the person seeking the information can appeal to the Information Commissioner, and occasionally they do. I do not sign off on freedom of information requests; it is not set up like that.

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