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 have never had something cross my desk as a Minister asking if I agreed with it being released under freedom of information. There is provision in the legislation where one can give observations.
I could count on one hand, however, the number of times I have been asked for observations. Very often, when something is released under freedom of information, the first I hear of it as Minister is when I read about it in the newspapers. I do not like that and would not mind getting a heads-up.
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