Noel Rock (Dublin North West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I have a few questions for the witnesses. The first is whether the Information Commissioner has been consulted on an amendment to the Freedom of Information Act. That would be useful and beneficial for obvious reasons. The ability to request information under the Freedom of Information Act is vital for a healthy and functioning democracy. Supplementary to that, I propose that we write to the Information Commissioner to seek the office's views on it. Is the Land Development Agency subject to the ethics legislation re conflicts of interest and declaration of interests? Deputy Darragh O'Brien referred earlier to the Regulation of Lobbying Act.

Under head 7 of the general scheme, how many subsidiary entities does the LDA envisage need to be established to support its functions following enactment? How will that be structured? Some of the functions in head 9 appear to carry an elevated risk profile, for instance in 9(2)(j), which refers to profit-sharing agreements with third parties and 9(2)(k), which refers to investment vehicles. How will the risk be managed and mitigated and who will ultimately be responsible for same? I always think brevity is a virtue when I am Chair and we have members queued up on the runway for a secondary round of questions, so I will leave it there and hand over to Ms Graham.