Andrew Doyle (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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379. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in the context of freedom of information and AEI regulations, if his Department or any other State body has provided any advice or guidance to bodies such as An Bord Pleanála to set out the way to handle contemporaneous notes taken in the consideration of cases or during board meetings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26812/14]

Phil Hogan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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My Department does not publish guidelines in relation to the Freedom of Information Regulations. Advice and guidance in that regard is issued by the Department of Expenditure and Public Reform's Freedom of Information Central Policy Unit and may be accessed on the website, .

My Department has published guidelines in relation to the Access to Information on the Environment (AIE) Regulations and these have been circulated widely to other Government Departments and public bodies and are also available to the public generally on my Department's website, . These guidelines do not go into specific detail on the handling of contemporaneous note taking. My Department also deals with a number of informal queries from public bodies on AIE, but there is no record of a query having been made in relation to the taking of contemporaneous notes in the consideration of cases or during board meetings.