Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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The obvious comment to make on that is that if the office is having difficulty meeting its legal requirements because of the lack of staffing and financial resources currently, extending FOI to a lot of other bodies is a pointless exercise unless the resources are supplied to enable the existing legislation, not to mind the new legislation, work. There is no point in us passing legislation unless there is something in the Estimates to back up its good intentions.