Alan Shatter
Ceist:247 Mr. Shatter asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of requests for information to his Department under the Freedom of Information Act, 1997; the number initially refused; the number granted on appeal; the number in respect of which payments for collecting information have been sought from members of Dáil Éireann, members of Seanad Éireann and the public respectively; and the number of applications in each case where the payment sought has been discharged or reduced on appeal. [2668/99]