Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The previous Administration tore the heart out of the Freedom of Information Act. The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform has had the heads of his Bill approved and it has been sent to the committee and is on the Department's website. We will deal with the question of expansion of the Freedom of Information Act and its restoration to the way it should be. I agree that as much information as possible should be made available. However, the Deputy cannot forget his own argument. He comes in here and says "Publish all the documentation". I make the point to him that I have no file in the Department of the Taoiseach, other than acknowledgments and faxes that are irrelevant to the central issue, on what happened on the night of the bank guarantee. The Deputy knows, as he was a Minister for many years, that on any issue about which people come to see a Minister, never mind senior members of the Government, where an incorporeal must be held-----

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