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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Capital Expenditure (5 Feb 2013)

Seán Fleming: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the amount of his Department’s €61 million capital spending for 2013 that will go towards construction projects; the projects that are involved; the details of these projects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5280/13]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Capital Expenditure (5 Feb 2013)

Seán Fleming: To ask the Minister for Defence according to the monthly Exchequer Returns if he will provide a breakdown of the €4 million of capital funding spent by his Department during December; the reason 44% of his Department’s overall capital spend was held until December; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5133/13]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Capital Expenditure Programme (5 Feb 2013)

Seán Fleming: To ask the Minister for Defence the amount of his Department’s €9 million capital spending for 2013 that will go towards construction projects; the projects are involved; the details of these projects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5272/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Capital Expenditure (5 Feb 2013)

Seán Fleming: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a breakdown of the €30 million of capital funding spent by his Department during December; the reason 18% of his Department’s overall capital spend was held until December; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5130/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Capital Expenditure Programme (5 Feb 2013)

Seán Fleming: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of his Department’s €187 million capital spending for 2013 that will go towards construction projects; the projects involved; the details of these projects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5268/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Capital Expenditure Programme (5 Feb 2013)

Seán Fleming: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount of her Department’s €26 million capital spending for 2013 that will go towards construction projects; the projects involved; the details of these projects; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5270/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Capital Expenditure (5 Feb 2013)

Seán Fleming: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of the the €61 million of capital funding spent by his Department during December; the reason 17% of his Department’s overall capital spend was held until December; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5137/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Capital Expenditure (5 Feb 2013)

Seán Fleming: To ask the Minister for Health the reason his Department had a capital underspend of €41 million for 2012; what this funding was due to go towards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5138/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Capital Expenditure Programme (5 Feb 2013)

Seán Fleming: To ask the Minister for Health the amount of his Department’s €397 million capital spending for 2013 that will go towards construction projects; the projects involved; the details of these projects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5277/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Capital Expenditure (5 Feb 2013)

Seán Fleming: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a breakdown of the €286 million of capital funding spent by his Department during December; the reason 31% of his Department's overall capital spend was held until December; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5142/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (6 Feb 2013)

Seán Fleming: To ask the Minister for Health when an appointment to see a consultant in Dublin will be made in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Offaly; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6102/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2012: Discussion (6 Feb 2013)

Seán Fleming: I welcome the witnesses. I will put some observations and questions to them because we are more interested in their views than they are interested in listening to us. We can express our own views at subsequent meetings and we have many people to meet. There is a practical issue with regard to fees. It was mentioned in the submission that the Office of the Information Commissioner had...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2012: Discussion (6 Feb 2013)

Seán Fleming: There is an aspect on which we did not touch and I would like the witnesses' opinion on it. Would they outline the practice in other countries, if they know it, or have they a view on it? This is what I would call the broader societal impact of freedom of information. The conversation on this issue in which we have been involved so far has been dealing with public bodies. The only reason...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2012: Discussion (6 Feb 2013)

Seán Fleming: I thank Mr. Sheridan for his attendance and wish to tease out a few points on which I seek his views. On the issue of search and retrieval, we concentrate a lot on the fees and there is an emerging consensus, although it might not yet have landed on the desks of those officials who are drafting the legislation, that most people now accept the cost of processing the application fee is far...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2012: Discussion (6 Feb 2013)

Seán Fleming: Could Mr. Sheridan tell me about the exemptions in the legislation? In most or maybe all Departments there are items of legislation in which exemptions are listed stating that certain information cannot be released. Although, for example, the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation is subject to the FOI Act, there might be items on which one wants information but an exemption prevents...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2012: Discussion (6 Feb 2013)

Seán Fleming: My last point is the one I raised at the very end of our meeting with the NUJ, the broader societal right to information. All of the debate on this legislation and everything that has been written and presented to us about it concerns freedom of information in Government bodies, agencies and public bodies, excluding some commercial semi-State companies and matters of commercial sensitivity...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2012: Discussion (6 Feb 2013)

Seán Fleming: There was a lot of information in the document Ms O'Reilly read. Could she arrange for us to get a copy of it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2012: Discussion (6 Feb 2013)

Seán Fleming: It should be passed on to the secretariat because other people will want it also. There is significant information in it. Being upfront, I did not get it all because I did not have the chance to see it. On the issue of the section 32 review, can Ms O'Reilly give us a pen picture? In the letter she sent to us, she said that section 2 of the Act provides for the mandatory refusal of access...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2012: Discussion (6 Feb 2013)

Seán Fleming: Ms O'Reilly said the review was done in 2005 and a review is required every five years. Whose job is it to do this review? Is it the fault of the Oireachtas it was not carried out? Is it our fault?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2012: Discussion (6 Feb 2013)

Seán Fleming: It is not all the fault of the Chairman, but we have been negligent in our duty by not doing this.