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- Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2014)
Seán Fleming: I move amendment No. 98:In page 75, to delete line 33.
- Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2014)
Seán Fleming: I move amendment No. 100:In page 75, to delete line 36.
- Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2014)
Seán Fleming: I move amendment No. 104: In page 76, to delete line 13.
- Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2014)
Seán Fleming: I love to bring matters back to layperson’s English. Essentially, the Minister is including ESB Networks Limited in this Schedule because it deals with smaller transmission issues. Does this mean the planning process involving EirGrid and its transmission functions will be covered by freedom of information?
- Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2014)
Seán Fleming: Except the commercial bit?
- Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2014)
Seán Fleming: That is good. I know the Minister will have some refinements to make in the autumn.
- Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2014)
Seán Fleming: Does the Minister hope that in the course of 2015, people will be able to make freedom of information requests to EirGrid? From when will it apply?
- Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2014)
Seán Fleming: I move amendment No. 89:In page 73, to delete lines 12 to 33.This amendment concerns the Labour Relations Commission which I will not press. Amendment No. 91 relates to the National Treasury Management Agency, NTMA. While we will not go the wire on this, I am still shocked how the agency and the Department of Finance got one over on the Minister on this. Here we are opening up freedom of...
- Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2014)
Seán Fleming: Generally, I understand what is involved but there is one issue. I tabled amendments which are part of this group. Amendment No. 101 is in my name and the Minister's name and it deals with EirGrid. EirGrid is the issue I want to talk about in this group. We put the case to the Minister on Committee Stage that Irish Water is now under FOI and EirGrid is a State monopoly. The Minister is...
- Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2014)
Seán Fleming: We could do with the majority Government Members trying to prioritise that as well. I accept I cannot press the amendment because the ball is in the committee's court.
- Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2014)
Seán Fleming: Are we discussing amendment No. 84?
- Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2014)
Seán Fleming: On that amendment-----
- Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2014)
Seán Fleming: I am a little troubled about it. The Minister referred to the office-----
- Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2014)
Seán Fleming: The Minister might deal with it and I will speak to it again.
- Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2014)
Seán Fleming: I thank the Minister. When I read the reference to Rosslare I thought it was something to do with Wexford but I was willing to let it pass. If there was something to do with Wexford I would not try to block it but if it in any way helps the operation down there, well and good. Amendment No. 84 deals with the Office of the Commissioner for Environmental Information. I accept what the...
- Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2014)
Seán Fleming: Yes, but where can information be obtained with regard to the Office of the Commissioner for Environmental Information in the performance of its functions under the European Commission?
- Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2014)
Seán Fleming: Which body has the environmental information? I thought the Office of the Information Commissioner had that separate role. To who or whom can a person submit a FOI request to get the environmental information if not this particularly body? I thought that office had a specific role with regard to European environmental information.
- Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2014)
Seán Fleming: This legislation has a reference to SI 133 of 2007. Those regulations define environmental information and the public authorities from which it may be requested. They also set out the manner in which environmental information can be sought and provided and if it is refused, there can be an appeal. All I want is an assurance from the Minister that the relevant environmental information can...
- Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2014)
Seán Fleming: The Minister is quite right in what he says about the committee of which I am a member. Five of the 27 members of the committee were promoted this week, so it has just 22 members now.
- Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2014)
Seán Fleming: It is a great committee for one's prospects of getting a promotion. I suggest that if one joins the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform or perhaps the Committee of Public Accounts, one's chances of being promoted will be very high. I congratulate each of the five members of the committee we have lost. I understand what the Minister is saying. I knew what the answer...