Mr. Ger Deering:

I have not given any thought to the refunding of the fees and it is something I am happy to think about and come back to the Deputy on. I agree that we cannot necessarily make assumptions about the low level of appeals. It comes back to some of what we talked about earlier. We have to try to get these bodies to put the information on their website in the first instance. I agree with more information being available and there being more transparency in the number of decisions refused and the reason for that. All that information needs to be available. When I take up office, I hope to be looking at whether there are trends and bodies that are refusing more than others, as the Deputy referred to. The office will have a lot of information and detail in that regard that we can examine and see where the problems are. Honestly, I am not informed enough to give the Deputy specific answers to those particular points until I get my feet under the desk.