Patrick O'Donovan (Limerick County, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Deputy Cullinane is right to seek to ensure that the office is subject to the Freedom of Information Act.

However, it already is. Section 6(1) of the Freedom of Information Act sets out the public bodies that are subject to the Act. Section 6(1)(b) states that an entity established by or under any enactment, other the Companies Acts, will be subject to the freedom of information, FOI, regime. The national shared services office is therefore automatically subjected to FOI legislation under the 2014 Act. I understand and appreciate where the Deputy is coming from, but it is a duplication of an existing provision as the Act already extends to the office.

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