Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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79. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the date the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, will come under freedom of information obligations. [40512/14]

Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)
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In accordance with Section 1(3)(b) of the FOI Act 2014, in the case of a public body - such as is referred to in the Deputy's question - that was not subject to FOI under the FOI Act 1997 but is subject to FOI under the 2014 Act, the Act will apply to that body 6 months from enactment or on such later day, not later than 12 months from enactment, as the Minister may by order appoint.  Following the recent enactment of the FOI reform legislation I will be consulting with my Government colleagues, as appropriate, on any business case made for the date to which FOI should apply to any specific public body, within the timeframe laid down in the legislation.