Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Again, I cannot comment on individual decisions made under freedom of information legislation.

As I explained, if I were to get involved in that, it would challenge the non-political nature of how these decisions are made in the first instance. The Deputy named an individual who works for the freedom of information unit in a particular organisation and read out an email he received relating to a decision that organisation was making. However, there might well be another context or there might be other matters relating to that decision of which I am not aware. For that reason, I will not comment on an individual decision that has been made. If the Deputy has concerns about the implementation of the legislation generally or a concern that it is not being implemented in the way the Oireachtas intends, I am open to having a discussion with him about that and hearing his views on the matter, but not about individual decisions because that would not be appropriate to this legislation.

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