Um.
Data Protection Commissioner’s office, Portarlington, County Laois
Louis le Fronde writes:
So according to the Irish Independent , the Irish Data Commissioner is going to investigate Facebook, have you seen their office in Portarlington (above)? I’m sure Zuckerberg is terrified….
Earlier: A Limerick A Day
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it’s not about size, it’s how you use it… so facebook will get off scot free.
Exactly, central banks had large shiny offices and look how well they performed in 2008.
now they have an even bigger shiny office, that they had to buy iof NAMA, because it’s not as if the assets of the failed bank weren’t already owned by the state, no we have to pay for them twice…
At least there is plenty of parking and there is a central for lunch
Looking at the place it seems they are not looking for many people to drop in
There are fewer sights more depressing than that image
Our architecture isn’t that great is it? that could be anywhere in the country, that building is indistinguishable from any other.
You’ve never seen me in the bath.
With Mary O’Rourke?
… and eating a kebab after all day on the lash.
i misread that and threw up lot in my mouth
From their 2015 annual report:
“During 2015, the DPC continued the
programme of building our capabilities and
our capacity through significant recruitment
including specialist legal, technical,
investigatory and communications experts.
A temporary Dublin premises on Harcourt
Road now houses over 20 DPC staff, with the
Dublin team moving to dedicated premises
in the city centre in the second half of 2016.
This new office expands our geographic
reach, and works seamlessly with the existing
28 staff based in Portarlington, County
Laois.”
I think the new office is in Merrion Square. They’ve recruited more staff. Up around 140 people now.
Do they serve breakfast Sandwiches in that Centra? Might I suggest some Quinoa instead… ;-)
Ah Factchecker, do you really believe everything you read in an annual report?
How did they manage to get 28 people into that place in Portarlington, it’s a bit like the figs in the fig rolls in’it?
Fig rolls don’t have a first floor that looks like it could seat about 30 people easily
And they’re probably not all there on the same day.
Or ever…. It’s the public service after all.
If we had a cannabis regulator it would be located in a jacks in Thurles!
and.a coke regulator ‘in’ Templemore!!!!
Who is the lucky landlord?
And that’s a question that’s always worth asking.
+1
….you mean the lucky Fianna Fáiler…
I thought they were doing an alright job actually
and why do they need to be Blah Cliath anyway
Isn’t this the type of decentralisation we should be cheering on?
…said like a roaring culchie from the black hole of CULCHIESTAN…
Zucker!
Sounds glorious!
https://www.dataprotection.ie/docs/Decentralisation-Portarlington/233.htm
Its telling that the information outlined on the DPC website is about 20 years out of date.
Still I guess it explains the Portarlington Space – Time Continuum conundrum.
Missed a good headline opportunity: Centra Intelligence Agency
10/10 comment.
Agreed. Criminally overlooked.
Let’s not let the truth get in the way of a good story.
21 Fitzwilliam Square is the Dublin address for the DPC.
No room for truth here. A mere 30 second Google search would show that. But I suppose the ‘hilarious poster’ who sent this in gets some sense of satisfaction. Decentralisation should be brought back to try solve the Dublin housing problem.
To be fair, I think the image might sum up why the decentralisation process didn’t work. I’d bet that the Portarlington Office was established first with the Dublin office later when it was clear the ‘talent’ wouldn’t relocate.
Not that this was unique to the DPC.
I can understand someone wanting to relocate to live on a windswept cliff overlooking the Atlantic. But Portarlington? Not so much.
You’d think that. But attempts to get BIM to relocate from Dun Laoghaire to Clonakilty failed.
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/fisheries-board-staff-do-not-want-to-relocate-1.1165395
@otis, generally, it didn’t work as senior staff didn’t want to move, these are the people who brought on one income a house in Dublin back in the day. The junior staff did but had no say.they might want to be able to buy a house and improve their quality of life. It worked well in some revenue departments, Irish prison service to name a few. Needs to be looked at again.
I understand the reasons. But decentralisation was a political stroke by FF. At the time 400 jobs from Bus Eireann were announced for Mitchelstown in Co. Cork. The only way that this could have come to pass was if every Bus Eireann route commenced or ended there.
Recall also that the locations selected did not accord with the hubs and gateways of the National Spatial Strategy and were selected for political expediency. They made a balls of it but in truth there was no genuine attempt to get it right.
Of course. These box-ticking, ass-covering, pointless quangos are always located in a prime location funded by the ongoing rape of the Irish taxpayer. The office in the bog is a diversion.
It’s no Cote Z’Azur all right Louis.
This country is a fupping joke.
It might be, but I don’t wanna be patronised about it from some French fella over here coz he can’t get a better job back home in wonderful Pari