Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 24 March 2015
149. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Taoiseach the number of occasions since the start of 2014 on which the Secretary General of his Department was involved in the clearing or approval of material for release under freedom of information legislation. [11806/15]
Amharc ar fhreagraResponsibility for decisions in relation to records to be released or withheld under Freedom of Information is delegated to individual decision makers in my Department. All Freedom of Information requests received are processed in line with the guidelines set out by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the recently published Code of Practice. The Secretary General is consulted in relation to requests involving records in his Office and is provided with copies of records being released. A list of FOI requests on hand in the Department is also circulated regularly to senior managers, including the Secretary General, for information.
