Trevor Sargent (Dublin North, Green Party)

I did not hear the final piece, go raibh maith ag an Taoiseach. Given the sizeable decrease in the number of freedom of information requests, from 143 in 2003 to 45 in 2004, and given that the Department of the Taoiseach has collected €525 in fees in 2004, does this match or exceed the cost of processing freedom of information requests? In other words does the freedom of information legislation represent a profitable enterprise? Has the €35.5 million cost of setting up Media Lab been the subject of any freedom of information request to the Department of the Taoiseach, given the Taoiseach's involvement in the establishment of that project?

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