Dublin City Council blocked journalists’ requests for access to private emergency accommodation payments for almost a decade. The public procurement of multi-million-euro contracts should never be a state secret.
Bord na Mona, ESB and Coillte have faced criticism for regularly fighting against requests to release environmental information they hold. New decisions from Ireland’s information commissioner may reveal their spend on legal fees and shines a light on a broken system.
The full survey results, released this month after a four-year legal battle, tell little to nothing of what we don’t already know about the agency’s client base here. So why did it push back so hard?
A trilogy of reports released this week converge on the lack of accountability and transparency that landed the state broadcaster in the public gaze. Will their multitude of recommendations to make decisions clearer also make them better?
For decades, Government policy has been to outsource social housing to private landlords while telling them that they needn’t bother with common public supply transparency obligations. This is coming back to bite one of their own.
It is often said that Irish officialdom routinely favours landlords with better protection and more advantageous rules. The past year’s battle to obtain information on HAP recipients appears to confirm this.
The war in Ukraine shows the need to expose money laundering structures routed through Ireland by applying the “many eyes principle,” says Transparency International Ireland’s John Devitt.
The complex corporate web used to manage the Coolmore horseracing business and its owners’ other investments makes it difficult to estimate their wealth. This matters for a number of reasons – and Magnier’s position on the national rich list is the least of them.
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