Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 30 April 2013
132. Deputy Andrew Doyle asked the Taoiseach if the Secretary General of his Department, for the purpose of transparency and accountability, will publish his diary on the Department's website on a monthly basis. [19971/13]
View answerMy Department has committed in its Strategy Statement to undertake specific actions to promote transparency. To advance this, a programme of measures was recently initiated to promote transparency through the routine publication of information on a quarterly basis.
Information published on the Department's website to date includes details of foreign travel expenses in respect of the Taoiseach and Ministers of State at the Department, details of purchase orders in excess of €20,000, minutes of IFSC Clearing House Group, minutes of the Department’s Management Advisory Committee and a log of Freedom of Information requests. As part of this programme, the Department will also shortly publish the Secretary General’s diary on a quarterly basis subject to any necessary redactions for confidentiality reasons.
All of this information is being published on a regular basis in addition to the significant volume of material published in response to Parliamentary Questions and under Freeedom of Information, which includes details of all payments made by the Department and of the Secretary General's diary.
