Summary: The Senior Investigator annulled the decision of CDETB to charge a fee of ?1,140 for the search for, and retrieval and copying of, records in respect of the applicant?s request. He found that the CDETB failed to comply with the requirement in section 27(5) to notify the applicant of the need for a deposit within two weeks of receipt of the request.
Date: 19-11-2019
Case Number: OIC-56436-B9L2F1
Public Body: City of Dublin Education and Training Board
Section of the Act.: s.27
Summary: The Senior Investigator annulled the decision of the Agency. He directed it to reconsider the applicant?s requests separately.
Date: 18-11-2019
Case Number: OIC-56431-Q7R1J2
Public Body: Land Development Agency
Section of the Act.: s.27
Summary: The Senior Investigator annulled the HSE?s decision and directed it to conduct a fresh decision-making process. He found that the HSE had taken an unduly narrow interpretation of the request and had therefore failed to justify its decision under section 15(1)(a) of the FOI Act.
Date: 15-11-2019
Case Number: OIC-53515-X3K1R4
Public Body: Health Service Executive
Section of the Act.: s.15, s.15(1)(a),
Summary: The Senior Investigator affirmed the decision of the Service.
Date: 14-11-2019
Case Number: OIC-55129-K6M0M3
Public Body: Houses of the Oireachtas Service
Section of the Act.: s.37
Summary: The Senior Investigator affirmed the decision of the Central Bank to refuse access to the record sought under section 15(1)(a) of the FOI Act.
Date: 14-11-2019
Case Number: OIC-56045-P0K7C0
Public Body: Central Bank of Ireland
Section of the Act.: s.15, s.15(1)(a),
Summary: The Senior Investigator affirmed HIQA?s decision. She found that the parts of the record that relate to the applicant are not exempt under section 36(1)(b) of the FOI Act.
Date: 13-11-2019
Case Number: OIC-55173-M3X6M6
Public Body: Home and Health Information and Quality Authority
Section of the Act.: s.36, s.36(1)(b), s.38
Summary: The Senior Investigator affirmed HIQA?s decision. She found that the parts of the record that relate to the applicant are not exempt under section 36(1)(b) of the FOI Act.
Date: 13-11-2019
Case Number: OIC-55252-V9P3J5
Public Body: Home and Health Information and Quality Authority
Section of the Act.: s.36, s.36(1), s.38, s.38(1),
Summary: The Senior Investigator affirmed the decision of the Council. He found that the applicants had not identified specific acts of the Council for which the Council were required to provide statements of reasons.
Date: 13-11-2019
Case Number: OIC-55393-T4D2S0
Public Body: Cork County Council
Section of the Act.: s.10
Summary: The Senior Investigator varied the decision of the Department. She affirmed the Department's decision to withhold access to records on the basis of sections 15(1)(d) and 15(2)(b). She found that section 31(1)(a) applied to a number of the records sought and affirmed the Department?s decision to withhold access to these. She also found that section 37 applied to records containing third party and joint personal information and that, on balance, the public interest did not favour their release. She found that section 30 did not apply to the remaining records sought and directed their release. She also directed the Department to undertake a new decision making process in relation to a small number of records which had been overlooked by the Department in error
Date: 04-11-2019
Case Number: OIC-53230-L2J0X4
Public Body: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Section of the Act.: s.15, s.15(1)(d), s.15(2), s.30, s.30(1)(a), s.31, s.31(1)(a), s.37
Summary: The Senior Investigator affirmed the PRA's decision, under section 37 of the FOI Act
Date: 31-10-2019
Case Number: OIC-54088-L3J3R1
Public Body: Property Registration Authority
Section of the Act.: s.37, s.37(1),