Ciarán Lynch (Cork South Central, Labour)
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We need to be careful. We must separate that discussion or we will get into two separate issues. The day-to-day management of the centres is a matter more pertinent to the justice committee. There is then the information on how tendering is conducted and the results. Is it policy, for example, that food is distributed in this manner or is that decision in the hands of the tenderer? There is a separation between what are freedom of information matters and what are operational matters. I ask delegates to focus on this because we have a time limit as other delegates are due to appear before the committee in the afternoon. As other members wish to ask questions, I ask Deputy Mary Lou McDonald to focus on the matters that relate to the freedom of information aspect.