Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

As a general principle, I am all for open data except in matters of State security and whatever else. The two questions put down relate to the numbers of FOI requests received. As the Deputy will be well aware from his own time as a Minister, one never sees these requests and has nothing to do with them. I have advised the Department to put them all up on the website when they are processed to let everybody see them. Some of the requests that come in are purely nonsensical while others are of particular interest to those who ask them. I remember entertaining the former Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Mr. John Beohner, at Lahinch where he wanted to play a round of golf a couple of years ago. We did not play on the course further down the coast.

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