Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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206. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when he will take the necessary steps to bring the National Asset Management Agency under the remit of the freedom of information legislation. [18245/15]

Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)
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The National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) is a public body as defined in Section 6 of the FOI Act 2014, other than in relation to the records of the body detailed in Schedule 1 Part 1 para (x) of the Act.

In general, the FOI Act came into operation 6 months following its enactment in the case of a public body such as NAMA, that was not subject to FOI under the 1997 Act but is subject to FOI under the new Act.  The FOI Bill was enacted on 14 October 2014. NAMA became subject to FOI under the Act 6 months later on 14 April 2015.

The details on how to make an FOI request have been available on the NAMA website since 14 April 2015 and I am informed that NAMA has been accepting and processing FOI requests since that date.