Results 61-80 of 136 for freedom of information request speaker:Seán Fleming

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Freedom of Information Requests (21 Oct 2015)

Seán Fleming: 167. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of freedom of information requests, in tabular form, received by his Department in 2015 to date; the number of these where the period of consideration was completed within four weeks of the receipt of the request; and the number where the period of consideration was extended by up to four weeks because the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Freedom of Information Data (21 Oct 2015)

Seán Fleming: 171. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of freedom of information requests, in tabular form, received by his Department in 2015 to date; the number of these for which the period of consideration was completed within four weeks of the receipt of the request; and the number for which the period was extended by up to four weeks because the necessary resources to...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Freedom of Information Requests (21 Oct 2015)

Seán Fleming: 177. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of freedom of information requests, in tabular form, received by her Department in 2015 to date; the number of these where the period of consideration was completed within four weeks of the receipt of the request; the number where the period was extended by up to four weeks because the necessary resources to complete the...

Sale of Siteserv: Motion [Private Members] (6 May 2015)

Seán Fleming: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this Private Members' motion in the name of the Fianna Fáil Deputies. I am very happy the Minister for Finance, Deputy Michael Noonan, is in the House to hear what we have to say directly. I know the Minister will respond in due course as the debate proceeds up to 9 p.m. tonight. The motion notes that, in 2012, Siteserv owed €150 million to...

Spring Economic Statement (28 Apr 2015)

Seán Fleming: The Minister was honest enough to later say the people of Ireland, by way of referendum, introduced these European financial rules that forced the Government of Ireland today and tomorrow, as well as every other government in the EU, to abide by these rules and regulations. That is why we have stability programme updates. The Irish people decided by referendum that we would not have runaway...

Freedom of Information Act 2014: Motions (2 Apr 2015)

Seán Fleming: I am pleased we are having this short debate on these U-turns in respect of freedom of information being proposed by the Minister. The Government's original plan was to have it taken here without debate, but we said there had to be a proper debate and have succeeded in getting five minutes for each of the Opposition speakers, which is welcome and is better than where we were. I acknowledge...

Freedom of Information Act 2014: Motions (2 Apr 2015)

Seán Fleming: Exactly. I will have to go to all 14 Departments and there might be a search and retrieval fee. The Minister acknowledged in the briefing note we received that in the case of the refugee bodies, an additional concern communicated by the Department of Justice and Equality was that third-party freedom of information requests would have the potential to delay judicial reviews of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Act 2014: Motions (1 Apr 2015)

Seán Fleming: I am shocked that we are here after the trumpeting of the introduction of freedom of information legislation. We are proceeding to unravel freedom of information legislation. We are introducing new exemptions and changing effective dates. It is a serious rowing back, a U-turn on the promise to reform and expand freedom of information legislation. This raft of changes introduces secrecy in...

Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2014)

Seán Fleming: Does the Minister hope that in the course of 2015, people will be able to make freedom of information requests to EirGrid? From when will it apply?

Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2014)

Seán Fleming: I move amendment No. 74:In page 61, to delete line 4 and substitute the following:“41. (1) The 52 non-disclosure provisions recommended for exclusion in Schedule 3, where the Information Commissioner disagreed with the views of the relevant Departments, shall be deleted from Schedule 3.(2) A head shall refuse to grant an FOI request if—”.We had a brief discussion on this...

Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2014)

Seán Fleming: I move amendment No. 72:In page 57, between lines 30 and 31, to insert the following:"(10) Subject to subsections (1) to (9), where the information relates to personal information of the requester, such information shall be released even where the information is provided by a third party.".I mentioned a particular case on Committee Stage but I will not labour the point too much. With the...

Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2014)

Seán Fleming: That is good and many people called for it. It would be churlish of people not to acknowledge the second sentence when they get to it. I tabled an amendment to the section before this, but related to this section, which was ruled out of order. I proposed there should be no application fee but it was ruled out of order because only the Minister can make such a provision. I also proposed a...

Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Report Stage (16 Jul 2014)

Seán Fleming: ...is a reason to exclude it as people in the North are sufficiently open, though it may be necessary to hold talks. Amendment No. 23 deals with receivers and administrators working for or on behalf of the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA. We are talking about people with service contracts or administrative arrangements with a State body. I presume the National Treasury Management...

Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Report Stage (16 Jul 2014)

Seán Fleming: A number of the amendments in this group are in my name. As the Minister knows, we discussed some of them on Committee Stage. Some of them are not quite new. Amendment No. 37 seeks to "make provision for the establishment of a database to include all information released under the Act" and to provide that "such database shall be made available to the public" to easily obtain. I am asking...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Freedom of Information Data (8 Jul 2014)

Seán Fleming: 232. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline in tabular form for each year from 2009 to date in 2014 the total number of freedom of information requests received by his Department; the total refused; total granted; total part-granted; total appealed; total of successful appeals; total of part-successful appeals; total of refusals; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Freedom of Information Requests (8 Jul 2014)

Seán Fleming: 336. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will outline in tabular form per annum from 2009 to date in 2014 the total number of freedom of information requests received by his Department; the total refused, total granted, total part-granted, total appealed, total successful appeals, total part-successful appeals and total refusals; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Freedom of Information Data (8 Jul 2014)

Seán Fleming: 437. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will outline in tabular form for every year from 2009 to date in 2014 the total number of freedom of information requests received by his Department; the total refused, granted, part-granted and appealed; the total of successful appeals, part-successful appeals and refusals; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Freedom of Information Requests (8 Jul 2014)

Seán Fleming: 467. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will outline in tabular form per annum from 2009 to date in 2014 the total number of freedom of information requests received by his Department; the total refused; the total granted; the total part granted; the total appealed; the total successful appeals; the total part successful appeals; the total refusals; and...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Freedom of Information Data (8 Jul 2014)

Seán Fleming: 583. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will outline in tabular form for every year from 2009 to date in 2014 the total number of freedom of information requests received by his Department; the total refused; total granted; total part-granted; total appealed; total of successful appeals; total of part-successful appeals; total of refusals; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Freedom of Information Requests (8 Jul 2014)

Seán Fleming: 681. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline in tabular form for each from 2009 to date in 2014 the total number of freedom of information, FOI, requests received by his Department; the total refused; the total granted; the total part-granted; the total appealed; the total of successful appeals; the total of part-successful appeals; the total number of refusals; and if he will make...