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01/07/2014
FOI Application Fee To Be Scrapped
A €15 application fee for non-personal Freedom of Information (FOI) requests has been scrapped as part of a series of reforms to the FOI system.
Under the changes the application will be abolished with fees for the search, retrieval and copying of information only being applied if the process takes more than five hours.
Announcing the reforms, Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform Brendan Howlin said that the charges would "allow our citizens access to information on a level par with best practice across the OECD. After all, information and data are the currencies of the new age."
(MH/IT)
Under the changes the application will be abolished with fees for the search, retrieval and copying of information only being applied if the process takes more than five hours.
Announcing the reforms, Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform Brendan Howlin said that the charges would "allow our citizens access to information on a level par with best practice across the OECD. After all, information and data are the currencies of the new age."
(MH/IT)
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