Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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Question 703: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the public bodies and agencies within his Department exempted from the full remit of the freedom of information legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2735/06]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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There are currently four bodies under the aegis of my Department: the Advisory Board for Development Co-operation Ireland; the Development Education Advisory Committee, DEAC; the Díon Committee on Emigrant Support; and the Ireland — United States Commission for Educational Exchange, known as the Fulbright Commission.

The Fulbright Commission is subject to the full remit of the Freedom of information Acts. The Advisory Board for Development Co-operation Ireland is one of the public bodies already designated to be brought within the full scope of the Freedom of Information Acts in the coming months. While neither the Díon committee nor the Development Education Advisory Committee, DEAC, are regarded as being separate bodies for the purposes of the legislation, freedom of information requests on both are made through and processed by my Department. Accordingly, they come within the full remit of the Freedom of Information Acts.