Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

I have three questions. First, what type of requests are made to the Department of the Taoiseach under the Freedom of Information Act? While I do not want to know individual details, what is the nature of such requests?

Second, as I understand it, the Freedom of Information Act does not apply to the six North-South Implementation Bodies under the Good Friday Agreement. As the Taoiseach is aware, that deals with Tourism Ireland, the Food Safety Promotion Board, Waterways Ireland and Foras na Gaeilge, with which no issue of national security is involved. As the Taoiseach rightly pointed out in England yesterday, we face the opportunity and challenge of a future of developing the island of Ireland. Those four areas are central to economic development, North and South, and they are not——

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