Here it is – The Commission of Investigation Certain Matters Relative to the Cavan Monaghan Division of the Garda Síochána – Final Report. Coincidentally, the Minister for Justice is apparently out of the country. The report was somewhat readable, but we’ve applied an additional OCR process just in case.
NAMA’s plans for delivering housing
Some time back we obtained the release below. It’s a very interesting set of various Department of Finance documents and it contains a number of elements:
1) Speaking notes for Michael Noonan for a NAMA offsite meeting in March 2015
2) NAMA’s written advice to Michael Noonan for residential delivery
3) NAMA’s suggestion that there be a Chief Government Adviser on Residential Delivery
4) A summary brochure of NAMA’s residential delivery to September 2015
5) Examples of houses for sale from NAMA projects, with sales/sq foot prices redacted
6) A September 2015 letter from NAMA to Noonan, on what NAMA can deliver
7) Project Arrow details
8) Noonan’s response to a private members bill
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Lee Buchheit bondholder email to Department of Finance
In today’s Sunday Business Post, Jack Horgan-Jones interviewed New York lawyer Lee C Buchheit. Buchheit is known as one of the world’s experts on sovereign debt crises. As the article says, he’s “the guy who governments fly in to tell their creditors they won’t be getting their money back”.
In 2010 the Irish government secretly called in Buchheit’s expertise. It was kept secret, according to the article, because if word got out, the markets would know Ireland planned to burned bondholders. In correspondence published for the first time below, Buchheit is shown to be aiding the Department of Finance with drafting legislation that would have allowed for the burning of bondholders.
Buchheit was asked if it would have been possible to restructure the liabilities of the Irish bank to keep the estimated €9bn liabilities from migrating to the shoulders of the Irish taxpayer.
“If you ask me, the answer has to be yes. Come on. We’re not children. The markets are not children. If they think they can jockey the official sector into paying them out, of course they’ll do it. But if they don’t think it’s happening they will restructure. They’ve done it all around the world, forever.”
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Fine Gael/Independent partnership document
This was made available as a scanned/photo PDF, but as usual we subjected it to an OCR process to make it more searchable.
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Garda Siochana 2015/2016 FOI log
An Garda Siochana became partially subject to the FOI act in 2015. This is a log of what people have been asking for from the police force since then.
Second Interim report – IBRC/Siteserv investigation
This is a searchable version of the just published second interim report of IBRC/Siteserv Commission of Investigation. It’s also a Friday night newsdump.
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Education Minister diary 2015
Part of an ongoing process. This is the appointments diary for Education Minster Jan O’Sullivan for 2015.
Transport Minister appointments 2015
Part of an ongoing process. This is the appointments diary for Transport Minister Paschal Donohoe for 2015.
Agriculture Minister appointments diary 2015
Part of an ongoing process. This is the appointments diary for Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney for 2015.
Minister for Foreign Affairs diary 2015
Part of an ongoing process. This is the appointments diary for Foreign Minister Charlie Flanagan for 2015.