Access to Information Updates
There are the bankruptcy documents of former Minister and broadcaster Ivan Yates. He is one of many who have gone to the UK to avail of a more lenient bankruptcy regime there.
The documents were released in full to the Sunday Times, who made them available to thestory.ie. I have removed some information that I would deem to be not relevant, including bank account numbers, national insurance numbers, mobile numbers, email and a car registration number.
There are the contracts awarded by the Department of the Taoiseach as a direct result of the planning and administration of Ireland’s Presidency of the EU 2013. Costs include the website http://www.eu2013.ie/, which cost €244,741.71.
Thanks to Vinnie O’Dowd for obtaining the data.
Below is a table of 1,497 NAMA enforcement properties as per December 11, 2012. Unfortunately NAMA don’t make this data available in open, accessible formats, so we do here instead. Thanks to David Cabo for help with the work on this.
Daniel McConnell in the Sunday Independent today writes about a letter released this week to thestory.ie. This came after an appeals process initiated in May, and now with the Office of the Information Commissioner. This is the full text of the letter released.
Thestory.ie currently has appeals with the Irish Information Commissioner and the European Ombudsman in relation to letters exchanged between the ECB and the Department of Finance in the weeks around the bailout in 2010.