Terry Prone (left), of the Communications Clinic, who acted as an advisor at the same time to both former Minister for Justice Frances Fitzgerald and former Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan during the Maurice McCabe controversy
Thread:- In March 2017, I asked for copies of all correspondence between then Minister Frances Fitzgerald and the Communications Clinic during her appointment at the Department of Justice
— Ken Foxe (@kenfoxe) July 31, 2018
The Department of Justice didn’t bother to respond to my initial request. I looked for an internal review and they then said that no such records existed. I appealed this to the Information Commissioner in June of 2017: pic.twitter.com/KnorlP1QTk
— Ken Foxe (@kenfoxe) July 31, 2018
Now, we find out nearly a year and a half after the original request was made that records do in fact exist: pic.twitter.com/8PjSqdAfMg
— Ken Foxe (@kenfoxe) July 31, 2018
Of course that doesn’t mean they’ll be made public. It is just sent back to the Department to make a decision whether records (which they claimed didn’t exist) are exempt from Freedom of Information or not.
— Ken Foxe (@kenfoxe) July 31, 2018
And if say they did decide they were exempt – then it’s back into the appeals process. How long then for another decision?
— Ken Foxe (@kenfoxe) July 31, 2018
And if say they did decide they were exempt – then it’s back into the appeals process. How long then for another decision?
— Ken Foxe (@kenfoxe) July 31, 2018
As I’ve said many times before, poor practice by public bodies in dealing with FOI requests is effectively being rewarded by this unacceptably slow process.
— Ken Foxe (@kenfoxe) July 31, 2018
Meanwhile…
An email – as seen at the recent Disclosures Tribunal – containing press clippings sent from Terry Prone, of the Communications Clinic to both the then Minister for Justice Frances Fitzgerald and former Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan in 2014.
Good times.
I dream of a day where we never have to talk about this again.
An email – as seen at the recent Disclosures Tribunal – containing press clippings sent from Terry Prone, of the Communications Clinic to both the then Minister for Justice Terry Prone and former Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan in 2014.
eh wha
it should be:
An email – as seen at the recent Disclosures Tribunal – containing press clippings sent from Terry Prone, of the Communications Clinic to both the then Minister for Justice Frances Fitzgerald and former Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan in 2014.
Thanks, D, fixed now.
Despite that 15 telephones or so were lost, all the text and call phone record metadata are also held in trust by the phone companies, still held illegally in Ireland after the Data Retention Directive was struck down:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Retention_Directive
Ask digital rights Ireland about it, https://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/steps-finally-being-taken-to-change-shameful-data-retention-law-1.3252329
(Not to confused with the Data_Protection_Directive!)
using a gmail account for Noirin
any trails on replies from the Minister etc to and from within that email string?
or has that already been done?
the sharing of stuff between a Minister, the DOJ, an Adviser under engagement with the DOJ and a private citizen I mean
How is it that Nóirín’s email address is made public but Frances’ and one of Terry’s are withheld?
Good work Ken,
I see that the Guards ALSO didn’t find any emails to/from Terry Prone in this FOI (page 2, 1/2 way down https://www.garda.ie/en/Information-Centre/Freedom-of-Information/Decision-Log/Finance-%E2%80%93-General/FOI-000098-2017-Decision.pdf).
And yet there it is to Noirin’s gmail in 14/05/2014. That’s pretty lousy detection for a police force.
I hope you were reimbursed your €30.
A reasonable person could be forgiven for thinking that they actually don’t want to disclose this information.
I don’t want to sound too harsh but Terry Prone seems like a real nasty piece of work. She was on the Tonight Show last week boasting about her role in getting a 2nd Lisbon Treaty referendum here. Is little wonder why Leo was so keen to get the strategic communications unit up and running quickly and quietly. With it, they could sidestep all of those pesky privacy/communications ethics laws in private.
Even the divil himself wouldn’t take her.
As Nana meadowlark likes to say.
Did you mean Nana Murderlark?