Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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Question 49: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the basis on which information on the activities of a publicly owned semi-State company, namely Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company, and the identity of the leaseholder for the Harbour Court Building owned by the company can be deemed confidential when a question is put by an elected representative of Dáil Éireann; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18846/11]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company is a State commercial port company established and operating pursuant to the Harbours Act 1996-2009. The organisational model of the sector is designed to reduce the role of government in day-to-day organisational and commercial activities, while retaining public ownership and reserving a number of specific Ministerial consent functions. The Act clearly designates certain functions to be the sole responsibility of the company and its Board. Included amongst these is any decision relating to the acquisition or disposal of land or buildings, either by sale or by lease. As I have previously indicated to the Deputy, issues regarding the commercial leasing of land or buildings may be regarded by the port companies as commercially sensitive and thus confidential.