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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Non-Disclosure Provisions Under the Freedom of Information Act: Discussion with Information Commissioner (5 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: Okay, although it is not the job of the committee to be in agreement with any body that comes before it in such a process. I revert to the issue raised by Deputy Mary Lou McDonald to flag it with Ms O'Reilly because members would like to read her material and there might be no harm in her reading our material also. In our draft report we are extremely conscious of the concerns about refugee...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Non-Disclosure Provisions Under the Freedom of Information Act: Discussion with Information Commissioner (5 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: The Deputy is dead right.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Non-Disclosure Provisions Under the Freedom of Information Act: Discussion with Information Commissioner (5 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: I will take questions in sequence in a 12-minute round of questions and answers. Before commencing, however, I would like to bring Ms O'Reilly back to her reference to her previous engagement with this committee in 2006. She expresses some disappointment with that meeting. Could she elaborate on that? It was before my time in the House and certainly before I became Chairman of this committee.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Non-Disclosure Provisions Under the Freedom of Information Act: Discussion with Information Commissioner (5 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: To elaborate on that, in her opening address Ms O'Reilly mentioned 36 secrecy clauses from a total of 150 identified on which she disagreed with the Minister's assessment. Forgetting about the disagreement with the Minister, are those ratios still the same? Does Ms O'Reilly's concerns about those 36 secrecy clauses still exist, or has the ratio changed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Non-Disclosure Provisions Under the Freedom of Information Act: Discussion with Information Commissioner (5 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: They have not been addressed since 2006.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Non-Disclosure Provisions Under the Freedom of Information Act: Discussion with Information Commissioner (5 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: Given that most of the present committee members were not Members of the House in 2006, would Ms O'Reilly summarise those 36 issues? I do not expect details of each of the 36.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Non-Disclosure Provisions Under the Freedom of Information Act: Discussion with Information Commissioner (5 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: A few more financial bodies have been created since then, such as NAMA.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Non-Disclosure Provisions Under the Freedom of Information Act: Discussion with Information Commissioner (5 Jun 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: We suspended before lunch for a brief recess. We will proceed with item No. 9 on today's agenda, the third review by the Information Commissioner of reports on section 32 non-disclosure provisions under the Freedom of Information Act 1997. I welcome the Information Commissioner, Ms Emily O'Reilly, who is accompanied by Mr. Stephen Rafferty. The meeting will proceed with Ms O'Reilly making...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals (30 May 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: 137. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a determination will be made in an appeal for a domiciliary care allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26362/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prisoner Numbers (30 May 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: 196. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons in prison; the number in each institution; the total number of prisoners not held in single cells or rooms; the number of these in each institution; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26320/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Accommodation (30 May 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: 197. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of prisoners in total and in each institution that are at present in custody; the number required to slop out; the number required to use normal toilet facilities in the presence of others; the number that are sole occupants of a cell that has normal flush toilet installed or have access at all times to normal toilet facilities; and...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Regulations (30 May 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: 198. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of prisoners in total and in each institution that are locked up for 23 hours or more in a normal day, for 22 to 23 hours in a normal day, for 20 to 22 hours in a normal day, for 18 to 20 hours in a normal day; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26322/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prisoner Numbers (30 May 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: 199. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of male and female prisoners under 21 years of age; the number in each of the institutions in which they are held; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26323/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Education Service (30 May 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: 200. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of workshop and work training posts that are vacant in each prison; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26324/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prisoner Rehabilitation Programmes (30 May 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: 201. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of hours the library in each prison is scheduled to open each week; the percentage of scheduled opening times that these libraries were actually open during 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26325/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Education Service (30 May 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: 202. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the allocations within the education subhead of the prison vote to each of the following areas of education in 2013: the education unit in each prison, each public library service involved in prisons, the Open University, the National College of Art and Design, Arts Council projects in prison, the Alternative to Violence Project and...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Education Service (30 May 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: 203. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of prisoners actively following a course with the Open University at the present time, in each institution; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26328/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prisoner Numbers (30 May 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: 204. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans, in the interest of transparency to publish on the Irish Prison Service website the numbers in custody in each institution on a daily basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26330/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Regulations (30 May 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: 205. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of prisoners in each institution who are diagnosed as on an enhanced regime, a standard regime or a basic regime, under the new incentivised regime arrangements; the weekly gratuity paid in each of these three categories; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26331/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Policies (30 May 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: 210. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the incentives, excluding new gratuity rates that have been made available to underpin the incentivised regimes policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26434/13]