I have. Consequently, I am even more reinforced in my view that the changes I made were worthwhile and correct. Furthermore, we are unique in the area of freedom of information in that we do not charge for the time it takes to process freedom of information requests. That is not part of the Act and, therefore, a fee of €15 is payable initially if the request does not involve personal information. What would be termed substantial changes to the Act related to, for example, the ten-year rule regarding Cabinet papers, Secretary General certificates of which none were issued, and Cabinet working groups of which none were certified. No such decisions were made in 2003.
Regarding some of the people who were using the Act, particularly journalists, it seems their commercial organisations cannot afford to give them €15 for a freedom of information request but they expect the taxpayer to make up the bulk of the cost of €125. Regarding the fees for internal and external review, only 9% and 3.5%, respectively, ever go for internal or external review. The numbers were very small before and after the changes I made last year.