Access to Information Updates
Part of an ongoing process. This is the appointments diary of Taoiseach Enda Kenny for 2014.
Previously:
Taoiseach’s Diary 1998
Taoiseach’s Diary 1999
Taoiseach’s Diary 2000
Taoiseach’s Diary 2001
Taoiseach’s Diary 2002
Taoiseach’s Diary 2003
Taoiseach’s Diary 2004
Taoiseach’s Diary 2005
Taoiseach’s Diary 2006
Taoiseach’s Diary 2007
Taoiseach’s Diary 2008
Taoiseach’s Diary 2009
Taoiseach’s Diary 2010
I recently sought from the Department of Finance:
All correspondence sent to the Department of Finance / Michael Noonan in relation to the sale of 20 Grosvenor Square in London by NAMA. This should include, but not be limited to, direct correspondence and correspondence that the Minister was cc’d on. It should also include correspondence received from all bidders for this building including any correspondence from Jane Tripipatkul or her representatives in relation to how this building was sold by NAMA. It should also include any follow up correspondence between the Department and NAMA on this matter or correspondence between the Department and any bidder for this building
The following documents were released, and a story was published in the Sunday Business Post on September 27 in relation to it.
Part of an ongoing process. This is the appointments diary of NAMA chief executive Brendan McDonagh for 2014.
Part of an ongoing process. This is the appointments diary for the Agriculture and Defence Minister Simon Coveney.
These are Irish Water board minutes released following an appeal to the Information Commissioner. We previously published the heavily redacted version of the minutes back in February. They contain parts previously redacted, citing commercial sensitivities.
This document contains communications between then Barclays banker Rich Ricci and Finance Minister Michael Noonan in 2011/2012.
Documents outlining a plan to resolve IBRC from 2012.
Part of an ongoing process. This is the appointments diary of Finance Minister Michael Noonan for 2014.
Previously:
Minister for Finance diary 2013
Minister for Finance diary 2012
Minister for Finance diary 2011
Minister for Finance diary 2010
Minister for Finance diary 2009
Minister for Finance diary 2008
Minister for Finance diary 2007
Minister for Finance diary 2006
Minister for Finance diary 2005
Minister for Finance diary 2004
Minister for Finance diary 2003
Minister for Finance diary 2002
Minister for Finance diary 2001
2000
Minister for Finance diary 1999
Minister for Finance diary 1998
Part of an ongoing process. This the appointments diary for Finance Minister Michael Noonan for 2013.
Following the passing of the FOI Act 2014, NAMA became subject to the Act (to a more limited degree than most public bodies) six months after enactment. That was mid April 2015. We sent our first FOI to NAMA on the date NAMA became subject to it. Records were released to us last week.
Our readers will be aware that we have been involved in a long battle with NAMA via the Information Commissioner and the courts to make NAMA subject to the Access to Information on the Environment (AIE) Regulations 2007/2011 (similar to FOI). That process started in February 2010 when we emailed them asking for certain information, and NAMA denied it on the basis they they were not a public body under those Regulations. We disagreed with them, and it escalated from there. AIE was the only legal mechanism available to us, as the Finance Minister at the time, Brian Lenihan, had not made NAMA subject to the FOI Act.
The issue of NAMA’s status or not as a public authority under AIE wound its way through the system over the past 5 years and ultimately to the Supreme Court in 2014. We await judgment in the matter, hopefully imminently.
NAMA is now subject to FOI, but not currently subject to AIE – an unusual situation in itself as AIE has a generally more expansive definition of public body than the FOI Act.
This is the first element of what was released to us, the minutes of NAMA board meetings for 2014 (all 332 pages). Approximately 70% of the pages are redacted.