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Joan Burton’s FOI refusal

By Gavin Sheridan – November 12, 2009

Part two of Joan Burton’s FOI concerned communications between the Department of Finance and Anglo Irish bank (I will post the exact wording of the request later). For now though here is the full extent of the refusal. It contains references to released information that I have not yet received from Ms Burton, but I will be seeking.

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Burton Refusal

Refusals are useful in telling you exactly what records exist, as in this case.

Posted in FOIs, Finance.

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  1. Samoan said
    on November 17, 2009

    The FOI Ombudsman claims that they are 2 years behind in processing appeals due to lack of staff, only now dealing with appeals from 2007. Why is there no media publicity on this?

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  1. Anglo talks – The Story linked to this post on July 24, 2010

    [...] subscribing to our RSS feed or for updates via email.Readers might recall that back in November, I published an FOI released to Deputy Joan Burton. She appealed a decision by the Department of Finance to refuse the release of certain documents to [...]

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