Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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If we pass this provision, how much extra will the Minister get from the double or treble charging of the €15 fee? He might make an extra €100 in the year in a Department, but it will cost ten times that amount to process and segregate the information requests. What we are doing is utterly trivial on the basis of a few specific cases. There are 10,000 FOI requests every year. It is trivial to pick out five, ten or 20 - I do not know exactly how many there are - the 1% of cases that involve a number of issues. Officialdom is well capable and has the ability to segregate requests.