Deputy Seán Fleming:

I move amendment No. 3:

In page 7, between lines 18 and 19, to insert the following:
"(4) The Regulator shall be subject to the Freedom of Information Acts 1997 and 2003.".

I am sure that the Minister will accept the amendment because he is a fan of the freedom of information legislation. He tells us he is championing it and when we were discussing freedom of information here recently he made it clear that it was his intention that all new and future organisations in the State would be subject to the freedom of information legislation. We specifically asked him the last time he appeared before the joint committee about Irish Water and he said it was his intention that it would be subject to freedom of information legislation. I presume it was just a drafting omission that this was not included in the formal legislation.