Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will consider making provision for decisions of local authorities which are made by way of managers' orders are published and are made available on the local authorities’ website rather than the current arrangement where access is quite restricted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37854/12]

Phil Hogan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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The provisions for Managers’ Orders are set out in Section 151 of the Local Government Act 2001. The manager is required to keep a register, with a copy of every order made by him or her. At every meeting of a local authority so much of the register as contains any orders made since the previous meeting must be made available for inspection by the elected council.

Any member of a local authority is entitled, on demand, to be supplied with a copy of any specified order made by the manager.

The Local Government Act 2001 (Section 237A) Regulations 2003, S.I. No. 274/2003 provides for a local authority to supply documentation to a member of either House of the Oireachtas. Local authorities have been asked, when dealing with correspondence by parliamentary representatives, to apply equivalent systems, procedures and timeframes as operate for councillors.

Making managers’ orders more widely available, including publication on their website is a matter for the local authority concerned. In this regard, while the orders are public documents, some may contain information specific to named individuals, and the need for discretion in regard to the publication, as a matter of course, of all managers’ orders would need to take this into consideration.

Phil Hogan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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Question No. 1060 answered with Question No. 86.