John Paul Phelan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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270. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the Land Development Agency, LDA, and its capacity to accept freedom of information, FOI, requests in view of recent remarks in which it seems the LDA will now be subject to FOI. [31110/20]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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In September 2018, the Land Development Agency was established on an interim basis by statutory instrument under the Local Government Services (Corporate Bodies) Act 1971, as amended, pending the enactment of primary legislation. On enactment, the LDA will be a commercial state body.

The LDA has been subject to FOI since March 2019 and deals with all such requests in line with the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act, 2014. It is intended that it will continue to be subject to FOI following enactment of its primary legislation.