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
Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
I do not think so, it is not the practice. I do not mean it in a diminutive way but I appreciate that the Deputy has never served in government and so does not know how this works. Nobody comes to the Minister to say that a freedom of information request has come in on something. Moreover, no one comes back a few weeks later to say it has been refused and to provide a reason. It is something that is handled by officials, often relatively junior officials.
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