IDA leases 2007 to 2010

Part of an ongoing process. These are the leases between the IDA and third parties for the years 2007 to 2010. The areas marking in the “Private finance landlords” have been redacted under Section 28 (Personal information). The column marked ‘Rent being invoiced’ contains redactions due to Section 27 (Commercial sensitivities). I have appealed the Section 28 redactions to Internal review on public interest grounds, but my appeal was rejected. I am now appealing the decision to the Information Commissioner.


IDA internal audit log 2006 to 2010

As part of an ongoing process. This is the internal audit log of the IDA from 2006 to 2010.


Moriarty Tribunal report – unlocked

For a reason known only to the gods, the Moriarty Tribunal released two massive and expensive reports, but did so as password protected PDFs.

After paying at least €42m for the reports, I would have hoped they least they could have done was release plain old vanilla PDFs. But they didn’t. You can’t copy and paste from the reports on normal Windows machines.

So here is a copy of both Part 1 and Part 2 of the report that you can copy and paste from. (You can download the PDF by clicking on the document and clicking Original Document (PDF))


IDA lease agreements

Some time ago I sought a number of things from the IDA including lease agreements and a fixed assets register. I have now obtained these documents. I would like to credit the IDA with their handling of the request, it was on time, and all communication was via email. If only other authorities handled things as professionally. However I believe at lease one of the exemptions (Section 28, personal information) has been applied incorrectly. The leases cost about €7,360,412 per year. Many of the premises are vacant.

Here is the letter of reply:


And the lease agreements in PDF:


And I have converted that PDF into a spreadsheet:

Download from here.

I believe that Section 28 has been applied incorrectly and inconsistently.

Fingleton's pension

The Sunday Business Post ran with a big story on INBS’s Michael Fingleton and his pension yesterday.

Here is a report released to the Public Accounts Committee on his pension and pay arrangements: