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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)

Ciarán Lynch: Before I bring in the Minister, we agreed to break at 7.10 p.m. so perhaps we could try to get this cluster of amendments covered if possible. If it is not possible, we will resume on them again at 7.40 p.m.

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)

Ciarán Lynch: I allowed the Deputy to ask a question. Will he, please, allow the Minister to respond?

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)

Ciarán Lynch: Next up are Deputies Richard Boyd Barrett, Michael Creed and Pearse Doherty.

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)

Ciarán Lynch: There is an income threshold for social housing.

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)

Ciarán Lynch: I am conscious that the Deputy might be leaving for a while. To clarify for when the Minister responds, is the Deputy stating private companies should be subject to the Freedom of Information Act also?

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)

Ciarán Lynch: I thank the Deputy for clarifying the matter.

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)

Ciarán Lynch: I ask both of my colleagues to speak on the amendments.

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)

Ciarán Lynch: On a point of clarification, the ESB was established 50 or 60 years ago because we needed electrification in rural parts of the country, but it now competes in the economic sphere, and under a ruling from Europe the company has been broken down similarly to Bord Gáis and other such companies. It will not be the same for Irish Water because the legislation explicitly states that it will...

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)

Ciarán Lynch: Tendering materials.

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)

Ciarán Lynch: Is the Minister distinguishing between monopolies-----

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)

Ciarán Lynch: In that grouping there are a number of different amendments, and even the Minister is included in the list. I return to amendment No. 85 from Deputies McDonald and Donnelly.

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)

Ciarán Lynch: I call the Minister to speak on amendments Nos. 92 and 94 and respond to amendments Nos. 10, 11, 85 to 88, inclusive, 90, 91, 93, 95 and 96.

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)

Ciarán Lynch: I must ask the Minister to mind his language also, since I pulled up Deputy Fleming.

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)

Ciarán Lynch: As the amendment is in the name of Deputy Sean Fleming, I propose that it be withdrawn.

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)

Ciarán Lynch: This is a formality. We can still discuss it. It is so that it can be re-entered at Report Stage.

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)

Ciarán Lynch: Yes. The Deputy has discussed it. If Deputy Fleming arrives, the position will be different.

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)

Ciarán Lynch: That is fine. I am merely trying to slow proceedings down to allow that to happen.

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)

Ciarán Lynch: I propose we operate on the assumption that the amendment will be withdrawn and that the Minister will give consideration to what one might call the administrative aspects, rather than the President's private diary, etc. Is that agreed? Agreed.

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)

Ciarán Lynch: Amendments Nos. 10, 11 and 85 to 97, inclusive, are related. Amendment No. 85 is a physical alternative to amendment No. 86 and 87, inclusive. Amendments Nos. 10, 11 and 85 to 97, inclusive, will be discussed together.

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)

Ciarán Lynch: Amendment No. 11 is in the name of Deputy Sean Fleming as well, as are some of the amendments those, amendments Nos. 85 to 97, inclusive.