Freedom of Information documentation
Micheál Martin sought the urgent release of documents on primary care centre selection; the Ceann Comhairle ruled the matter out of order during the Order of Business.
In the context of the Freedom of Information Act, will the Taoiseach and the Minister of State, Deputy Alex White, who is sitting beside him, take urgent steps to release the documentation on the selection of primary care centres? We have now been told, following a request for information under freedom of information legislation, that it will be a further four weeks before we get the information, having been told three weeks ago on the Order of Business by the Taoiseach and subsequently by the Tánaiste-----
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-----that the Government had no objection to the release of all the documentation pertaining to the decision. I am at a loss as to why the information cannot be laid before the Oireachtas Library and why Deputies and Senators cannot get access to it and make of it what they wish. We should at least have access to the information. It is bringing the House into disrepute that we cannot get replies following parliamentary questions and the timeframe for such has been extended.