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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)

Seán Fleming: The Deputy is absolutely correct in everything he says and we will do what he requests. Essentially, the response is unsatisfactory from the committee's point of view. We wrote asking for copies of a report and the organisation responded by pointing to reports that it had already published on foot of freedom of information, FOI, requests. Those reports, by the way, are heavily redacted....

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...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (24 Nov 2016)

Seán Fleming: I am just saying, I know our members are very light at this stage, but I question providing information to one requester under freedom of information and not making it available to the public. Just one citizen has got the information and the other 4 million have not. That is keeping something well under wraps. Is Mr. Linehan now telling me that the Minister had this meeting? The Minister...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)

Seán Fleming: The question is whether those responsible did anything in terms of national procurement when they were setting it up. That is agreed. No. 1232B is from Mr. Ray Mitchell of the Health Service Executive in response to the committee's request for a copy of internal audit reports regarding Our Lady's Hospice in Harold's Cross in Dublin. The correspondence includes two audit reports and a...

Freedom of Information (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: Second Stage (6 Jul 2012)

Seán Fleming: In the majority of Departments, however, that did not happen. There is a mechanism in place under the legislation, whereby, if a request is too voluminous, the person concerned can be asked to be more specific in order to obviate the need to charge such high search and retrieval fees. In the response of the Department of Finance the highest search and retrieval fees charged last year were...

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)

Seán Fleming: ...know Deputy Donnelly had a different view and wanted them excluded. I accept investors are going to invest, that company funds are potential investors and that purchasers are potential purchasers of assets. I could have included that but I felt, in the interests of the Irish taxpayers, that good commercial practice might be compromised if all of that was subject to freedom of information...

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

Seán Fleming: I thank Mr. Sheridan for his attendance and wish to tease out a few points on which I seek his views. On the issue of search and retrieval, we concentrate a lot on the fees and there is an emerging consensus, although it might not yet have landed on the desks of those officials who are drafting the legislation, that most people now accept the cost of processing the application fee is far...

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

Seán Fleming: My last point is the one I raised at the very end of our meeting with the NUJ, the broader societal right to information. All of the debate on this legislation and everything that has been written and presented to us about it concerns freedom of information in Government bodies, agencies and public bodies, excluding some commercial semi-State companies and matters of commercial sensitivity...

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...

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: 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...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: That is agreed. We will write to them and put them on notice. No. 2356C is correspondence from an individual, dated 8 August, who has made a detailed submission regarding the financial situation of Irish wind farms. Related to this are Nos. 2368C and 2370C, dated 8 August, correspondence from individuals also requesting the committee to review the submission. We know this matter is not...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)

Seán Fleming: We will note and publish it then. The Deputy can raise it again at a subsequent meeting. No. 1801B is from Mr. Paul Dunne, CEO of the Local Government Management Agency, responding to a request from the committee for a copy of the value for money report in respect of Irish Public Bodies produced in 2015. It includes a letter dated 13 November 2018 from Irish Public Bodies that sets out...

Seanad: Investment Limited Partnerships (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Oct 2020)

Seán Fleming: ...that we were not giving it enough time and said that we should not conclude it today whereas the previous speaker complained about us giving it too much time and asked whether it was a reflection of Government policy that we were spending so much time on this type of legislation rather than other legislation that people might consider more necessary at this time. I have been given two...

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)

Seán Fleming: ...I am very pleased that he has been willing to listen to common sense and do a complete U-turn on this issue. I admire his courage. Some here seem to consider this a laughing matter, but others of us do not. I said I admired the Minister's courage before the skits came from the other side. It is unquestionably a U-turn, but it is a good man who is willing to change his view. One can...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2017)

Seán Fleming: ...vii) are correspondence dated 16 March 2017 from Mr. Tony O'Brien in relation to records concerning the meeting on 2 February 2016. That has been circulated. Also circulated yesterday was a copy of the documentation released by the HSE under freedom of information. Both of those items relate to this afternoon's meeting and we will deal specifically with them then. No. 347B is...

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statement 2015 (15 Jul 2016)

Seán Fleming: At this stage, as it is very late in the afternoon, on behalf of the Committee of Public Accounts, I thank all our witnesses from the HSE, the Department of Health, the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Comptroller and Auditor General for having participated in the meeting and for the material they supplied to the committee. We will have further meetings with the HSE. Of...

Whistleblowers Protection Bill 1999: Motion (Resumed). (8 Mar 2006)

Seán Fleming: ...which was introduced in 1999, is being debated here after such a long absence. Recent events will have encouraged people to debate the issue. In 1999, when the Bill was first debated, most Members of the House agreed with the principle and the underlying objectives of what was contained in it. Over time, Members have examined it in more detail and realised that there is more to the issue...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Jul 2019)

Seán Fleming: ...to the secretariat shortly. It has arrived for me as Chairperson and I do not want to sit on it for the summer. It is a letter from the Irish Petrol Retailers Association regarding the Valuation Office and Valuation Tribunal. We had a discussion about the Valuation Office here on 27 June. The association states that more than 1,000 appeals are waiting to be heard and that service...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Apr 2017)

Seán Fleming: We are joined from the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General by Ms Colette Drinan, director of audit, and Mr. Shane Carton, deputy director of audit. Apologies have been received from Deputies Aylward, Cassells and MacSharry. Are the minutes of the meetings of 29 and 30 March 2017 agreed? Agreed. There is nothing specific arising out of the minutes that will not come up on our...