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

Ciarán Lynch: As in references to bring the Private Residential Tenancies Board under the remit of the FOI legislation.

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

Ciarán Lynch: It is embarrassing.

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

Ciarán Lynch: I want to deal with two specific heads of the Bill to bring matters to a conclusion. Heads 34 and 37, which are related, deal with matters covering the investigation powers of the commissioner. What types of instances prompt or motivate an investigation under the powers of the commissioner?

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

Ciarán Lynch: Is the recent issue regarding possible information pertaining to how the penalty points system was administrated in recent years one Ms O'Reilly would observe and consider to be a matter for her office? Or would a request have to be received by her office inquiring how many penalty points were issued by the Garda Síochána in 2010 and how many of those were quashed?

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

Ciarán Lynch: In terms of head 26, in 2007 Ms O'Reilly identified that there was an anomaly whereby confidential information sent in a letter to a public body from a third party can qualify for exemption if it meets the criteria in head 26 while the same information received via telephone call or noted by a member of staff of a public body cannot attract such protection, because of the difficulties in...

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

Ciarán Lynch: Let us say for instance that I was to e-mail the clerk this evening or vice-versa, to say that a certain committee member would make my life very hard at this afternoon’s meeting. It does not happen too often.

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

Ciarán Lynch: I suppose it would be releasable information under the Freedom of Information Act.

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

Ciarán Lynch: If I were to ring the clerk to say a certain committee member would break my heart this afternoon and he took a note of that, it appears that one type of information is releasable under freedom of information but the other is not.

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

Ciarán Lynch: I will bring the meeting to a conclusion. Does Ms O’Reilly wish to add anything further?

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

Ciarán Lynch: I thank Ms O’Reilly for coming before the committee this afternoon. Is it agreed that the committee will publish on its website all submissions received relating to the general scheme of the Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill? Agreed.

Promissory Notes: Motion (12 Feb 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: I remind Deputies and Ministers to address their comments through the Chair.

Promissory Notes: Motion (12 Feb 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: I ask Deputy Doherty to comment through the Chair. I will deal with the Ministers myself.

Promissory Notes: Motion (12 Feb 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: Deputy Doherty, I have given you a lot of leverage here.

Promissory Notes: Motion (12 Feb 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: Please make your comments through the Chair.

Promissory Notes: Motion (12 Feb 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: I ask the Ministers, Deputies Howlin and Noonan, to behave with good grace. Deputy Doherty has possession.

Promissory Notes: Motion (12 Feb 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: Order, please.

Promissory Notes: Motion (12 Feb 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: The Deputy will have to conclude.

Promissory Notes: Motion (12 Feb 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: I must ask the Deputy to conclude.

Promissory Notes: Motion (12 Feb 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: I am going to make an intervention here. When I introduced the Deputy, and I did the same with Deputies Pearse Doherty and Michael McGrath, I referred to him as Deputy Luke 'Ming' Flanagan. I am not calling him Ming from the Chair so I expect him to refer to Ministers in the House and other Deputies by their appropriate titles.

Promissory Notes: Motion (12 Feb 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: On that note, the Deputy has about a minute to conclude.