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- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: Okay. As it is late, I ask the Minister to bear with me. What he is saying is that-----
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: I ask the Chairman whether I should withdraw the amendment? What is the appropriate way to proceed?
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Minister for the clarification.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 18: In page 16, to delete lines 34 to 37 and substitute the following:"(5) Where a dispute arises as to whether subsection (1) applies, or as the conditions arising by virtue of that subsection, the dispute shall be submitted to the Commissioner, whose determination shall be binding.".Under the EU directive on environmental regulation, in terms of FOI legislation, the...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: Yes.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: The Minister is the other party to the dispute.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: But the public body-----
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: The Minister will decide.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: Okay. My understanding is that in regard to environmental regulations, the ruling from the European Union is that-----
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Minister.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 30: In page 24, between lines 33 and 34, to insert the following:"(d) the principle of public ownership and right of access to a genealogical heritage and the need to facilitate, as far as is practicable, the undertaking of family history, biographical, historical and related research, (e) in this section, "genealogical heritage" means the collective wealth of records...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: I am sorry to interrupt, but I would like to raise a procedural issue.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: It will take us a long time to tease it out.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: Yes.
- Leaders' Questions (13 Nov 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: We are halfway through the Committee Stage debate on the new freedom of information legislation. I accept that the new Bill contains some meaningful reforms. Unfortunately, all of the potential good that the Bill could do will be eradicated by the changes in the fees regime. I believe the Government set out to do the right thing. I remind the House of what the current Minister, Deputy...
- Leaders' Questions (13 Nov 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: In 2008, when the current Minister of State, Deputy White, was a Member of the Seanad, he said "the presumption in any democratic society...should be to make the information available". He argued that "it is not good enough for a Minister to point to the extraordinary cost or how onerous it is on us". The changes that are proposed in this legislation are contrary to the position of the UN...
- Leaders' Questions (13 Nov 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. Unfortunately, he did not answer my question. The only rationale we seemed to get from the Minister, Deputy Howlin, yesterday was that at a time of economic hardship, we cannot make freedom of information, which is an essential part of any modern democracy, free. We have received a very thorough report from Dr. Nat O'Connor which estimates that the cost...
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driving Licence Issues (13 Nov 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: 201. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the costs involved in opening each of the new 34 driving licence centres; if any American or overseas companies were outsourced to handle data of any kind in the set-up of the new National Driver Licence Service; if so, the steps taken to ensure confidential information was protected; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: I do not care whether it is a U-turn or a clarification, it is very welcome. I will leave the discussion on fees, upfront charges, etc., until we reach amendment No. 53 because we will be able to deal with them in some detail at that point. I will, however, use an example in order to clarify what I think the Minister as saying to us. I occupy an office in Agriculture House, the...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Nov 2013)
Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Minister. That is very welcome. Irrespective of what the new amendment will be, I echo the request that we be given it well in advance of Report Stage in order that if we want to tease it out at a committee meeting, we could do so.