OIC Decisions
Decisions issued from January 2022 onwards can be found here. Earlier decisions will be uploaded in the coming months. If you require an earlier decision then please email us at info@oic.ie
Decisions issued from January 2022 onwards can be found here. Earlier decisions will be uploaded in the coming months. If you require an earlier decision then please email us at info@oic.ie
Summary: The Senior Investigator affirmed the HSE's decision. She found that the withheld details comprised third party personal information and/or joint personal information (section 37) and that the public interest in protecting privacy rights outweighed the public interest in fully releasing the records.
Date: 20-02-2020
Case Number: OIC-56445-G8F5B6
Public Body: Health Service Executive
Section of the Act.: s.37, s.37(1), s.37(8),
Summary: The Senior Investigator affirmed the HSE's decision. She found that a record of a particular meeting did not exist (section 15(1)(a)). She also found that records and parts of records contained third party personal information and/or joint personal information (section 37) and that the public interest in protecting privacy rights outweighed the public interest in releasing the records.
Date: 20-02-2020
Case Number: OIC-56455-S1J4K0
Public Body: Health Service Executive
Section of the Act.: s.15, s.15(1)(a), s.37, s.37(1),
Summary: The Senior Investigator affirmed the HSE's decision. Having accepted that the records on which the statement would be based would be exempt under section 37 of the FOI Act (personal information), she found that section 10(2) of the FOI Act applies. Section 10(2) provides that section 10 does not require the giving to a person of information contained in a record which would fall to be refused as an exempt record. She also found that, because he is not his parents' guardian, the applicant is not entitled to a statement of reasons further to the provisions of Regulations 6 and 7 of S.I. No. 53 of 2017.
Date: 20-02-2020
Case Number: OIC-56963-K9S9J3
Public Body: Health Service Executive
Section of the Act.: s.10, s.10(1), s.10(2),
Summary: The Senior Investigator affirmed the Department?s decision. She found that the Department's application of section 28(1)(a) of the FOI Act (records submitted to Government) was justified.
Date: 20-02-2020
Case Number: OIC-58145-K8S4F5
Public Body: Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Section of the Act.: s.28, s.28(1)(a),
Summary: The Senior Investigator varied the decision of the Department. She found that it was justified in its decision to refuse access to further records under section 15(1)(a), on the basis that they did not exist or cannot be found after reasonable searches. She found the Department was not justified in its decision to refuse access to the records remaining within the scope of the review under section 30(1)(c). She directed the release of the records.
Date: 19-02-2020
Case Number: OIC-53432-C2N4F2
Public Body: Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Section of the Act.: s.15, s.15(1)(a), s.30, s.30(1)(c),
Summary: The Senior Investigator affirmed the HSE's decision.
Date: 17-02-2020
Case Number: OIC-59362-N1W9Q8
Public Body: Health Service Executive
Section of the Act.: s.37, s.37(1),
Summary: The Senior Investigator affirmed the HSE's decision, under section 37(1) of the FOI Act
Date: 14-02-2020
Case Number: OIC-56241-M4T6D6
Public Body: Health Service Executive
Section of the Act.: s.15, s.15(1)(i), s.37, s.37(1), s.37(2)(b), s.37(8),
Summary: The Senior Investigator affirmed the decision of the HSE.
Date: 13-02-2020
Case Number: OIC-58037-L7W0Z5
Public Body: Health Service Executive
Section of the Act.: s.15, s.15(1)(a),
Summary: The Senior Investigator affirmed the HSE's decision on the ground that the applicant had not shown that the information at issue is, on the balance of probabilities, incomplete, incorrect or misleading.
Date: 11-02-2020
Case Number: OIC-58305-J5P8Q1
Public Body: Health Service Executive
Section of the Act.: s.9
Summary: The Senior Investigator affirmed DCU's decision.
Date: 10-02-2020
Case Number: OIC-60343-C2C0X6
Public Body: Dublin City University
Section of the Act.: s.15, s.15(1)(a),