Last month I sent an FOI request to Her Majesty’s Treasury seeking details of communications between them and the Irish Department of Finance during a precise date range surrounding the financial crisis. As I expected, the request has been refused on several grounds. I plan on appealing, mainly because I believe some of the communications would not be subject to the exemptions applied.
Here is the reply from HM Treasury:
A Tory MP has a FoI request in for the time of the original EFSF deal so there may be others in for Ireland as well.