336. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is aware that some Departments and agencies are setting down inordinate search fees in response to precisely formulated and subsequently refined Freedom of Information Act 2014 requests, and then using them as the basis for the denial of such requests; if instructions have been issued, or signals provided, to officials to carry out exhaustive searching far beyond the immediate information fields sought; the way applicants are expected to make and refine requests, in the absence of information required under section 58.2 (d) of the Act; if he will re-affirm that the purpose of the Freedom of Information Acts is to make requests for information easier rather than more difficult; if he will issue guidelines to the effect that the level of searching should be proportionate and responsive to the information requested; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29028/15]

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336. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is aware that some Departments and agencies are setting down inordinate search fees in response to precisely formulated and subsequently refined Freedom of Information Act 2014 requests, and then using them as the basis for the denial of such requests; if instructions have been issued, or signals provided, to officials to carry out exhaustive searching far beyond the immediate information fields sought; the way applicants are expected to make and refine requests, in the absence of information required under section 58.2 (d) of the Act; if he will re-affirm that the purpose of the Freedom of Information Acts is to make requests for information easier rather than more difficult; if he will issue guidelines to the effect that the level of searching should be proportionate and responsive to the information requested; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29028/15]

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