In a previous existence if I, as general secretary of a teachers' union, had wanted to make an FOI request, I would have made a simple check to find out who was the FOI officer dealing with the matter and the request would have been made to that person. Contact with Iris Oifigiúil would only have been made if the person's name was not on the list sent by the Department of Education and Science. In other words, one would have known where to go for the information. That is important because it was the spirit of the legislation that the FOI officer would almost always be a person of middle or lower rank, certainly not senior rank, in the Department. That gave a sense of objectivity because the person concerned decided on whether the information was to be sent without making a judgment beyond what was required of him or her.