Dáil debates

Tuesday, 29 January 2013

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed)

Freedom of Information Requests

4:50 pm

Photo of Enda KennyEnda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Politics is about people, essentially, and government is about making decisions. Far from my going on a rant about Sinn Féin, Deputy McDonald was beside Deputy Adams, making peculiar facial expressions about Wexford and Kilkenny, and obviously could not resist the temptation to comment on that. The point is that it is about moving things along in the interests of people. The projects to which the Deputy referred were already approved for full planning and were in the capital programme in time to move them on.

This question is about the Department of the Taoiseach, which actually publishes quite a deal of information on its own website. The minutes of the IFSC Clearing House Group, for example, are published on the website yet they do not attract any attention because they are published and, therefore, they are available for everybody. People seem to want to get a bundle of freedom of information information because there might be some gem or some piece of information that was not public and that might be spectacular in its impact-----

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