Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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I said "the Minister at that time" was given the script by his officials stating "we have to introduce these fees because some people are asking outrageous, egregious, repetitive and vexatious questions and we must stamp it out". It sounds to me like that the same official has written the Minister's script, or it was written by somebody well tutored by the same official. That is the gist of what the Minister is saying today, that somebody who submits a request to an organisation about a pension scheme, for example, will be told that "it involves the audit committee and you have to pay a fee to see the audit committee's file. It also involves the finance department-----