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Department of Finance FOI Disclosure Log Quarter 4 2019 FOI Disclosure Log Quarter 4 2019 Case ID Requestor Type Request FOI Decision 19-184 Journalist - All agendas and relevant documents produced by the SAG in the course of its work in the period Part-Granted of 2018/ 2019. - All internal contact in the department about the SAG, including to and from the two Ministers and to the Taoiseach’s office for the period 2018/2019. (This to include SMS and whatsapp messages if applicable) - All contact between each member of the SAG and the department including the two Ministers, relevant to the SAG’s work, for the period 2018/2019. 19-277 Oireachtas “Any such documents and records relating to the ownership and creation of National Asset Part-Granted Management Agency (NAMA) and National Asset Loan Management (NALM) and communications relative to its ownership and restricting the timeframe of this request to April 1, 2009 - June 30, 2010 AND April 1, 2011 - Sept 30, 2012” 19-285 Oireachtas All government records (emails, briefings, meeting minutes, reports etc) relating to lobbying Refused undertaken by Irish Funds to the Minister for Finance, and/or his officials or Ministers of State, in the period 1st September 2016 to 31st December 2016. 19-286 Oireachtas All government records (emails, briefings, meeting minutes, reports etc) relating to lobbying Refused undertaken by Managed Funds to the Minister for Finance, and/or his officials or Ministers of State, in the period 1st September 2016 to 31st December 2016. 19-287 Oireachtas All government records (emails, briefings, meeting minutes, reports etc) relating to lobbying Refused undertaken by any individual or body to the Minister for Finance, and/or his officials or Ministers of State, from 1st January 2013 to 31st December 2013 regarding the introduction of REITs to Ireland. 19-288 Oireachtas All government records (emails, briefings, meeting minutes, reports etc) relating to lobbying Refused undertaken by any individual or body to the Minister for Finance, and/or his officials or Ministers of State, from 1st January 2012 to 31st December 2012 regarding the introduction of REITs to Ireland. 19-301 Journalist Detailed briefing documents sent to the department from Irish Funds Industry Association in Part-Granted September 2015 on proposals for updates to Limited Partnership/investment limited partnership Page 1 of 16 Department of Finance FOI Disclosure Log Quarter 4 2019 structures. Ministerial briefing note/s on Investment Limited partnerships put together by the department anytime between 2015 and 2019. 19-314 Oireachtas - Internal correspondence between Department of Finance officials on the establishment of Part-Granted a Garda Insurance Fraud Unit from 1 August 2018 to 31 May 2019 - Briefings prepared for meetings of any Oireachtas Committee by Department of Finance officials insofar as that briefing refers to any aspect of a Garda Insurance Fraud Unit, from 1 August 2018 to 31 May 2019. - Correspondence (if any) between the Department of Finance and Department of Justice in relation to the establishment of a Garda Insurance Fraud Unit, from 1 August 2018 to 31 May 2019. 19-315 Oireachtas All Department and Ministerial records, documents and correspondences (internal and external) Refused relating to the sale of Green REIT which was confirmed in August 2019. 19-321 Business/ Interest For the period 1 August 2018 to 13 August 2019 to include: Part-Granted Group - Copies of all correspondence sent and/or received between the Department and the European Commission on all of the matters referred to within the TSG Paper 19/09 - Minutes of all meetings held where these issues were referred to including meetings held with the European Commission and internal meetings within the Department that discussed these issues - Briefing Notes made of any nature where these issues were referred to, (notes of telephone conversations that discussed these issues) even if the note is only for file purposes and all records sent and/or received by the Minister and/or any Special advisors in respect of these issues - Copies of all texts sent and/or received where these issues were referred to 19-322 Business/ Interest PART 1 Part-Granted Group For the period from 10 July 2018 to 9 October 2018, I request all briefing material including memos, background papers, preparatory advice, minutes of meetings, reports and correspondence that addressed changing the betting duty on the commission earned by betting intermediaries. PART 2 Correspondence between (i) Horse Racing Ireland and the Department and (ii) the Alliance for Racing and Breeding and the Department, concerning betting duty policy and covering the period 1 January 2016 to 10 July 2018. Page 2 of 16 Department of Finance FOI Disclosure Log Quarter 4 2019 19-326 Journalist Could I request the following FOI's that have already been granted or part-granted by your Part-Granted department : FOI 16-342 access to all correspondence / lobbying received by the Department since the start of April 2016 in relation to Section 110 companies, Qualifying Investor Alternative Investment Funds and Irish Collective Asset-management Vehicles. Please include specifically any lobbying against the introduction of a levy on these type of funds used by international investors to reduce tax bills on Irish property. 16-384 Records of all lobbying and representations - including letters, emails, records and minutes of meetings and phone calls, submissions etc – on sections 21 and 22 of the 2016 Finance Bill.https://assets.gov.ie/5324/311218100432-40735d7452f1453c85502ab4cd5e0116.pdf 18-116 All documents, records, correspondence, meetings (minutes), emails, phone memos in relation to communications between Matheson Solicitors firm and the Minister for Finance, his General Secretary and Assistant General Secretary at Department of Finance in relation to - (b) s.110 Special Purpose Vehicles under the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 - from Jan 1st 2012 to the present. (c) all taxation matters (including those relating to investment funds, changes to Finance Bills, the national Budgets )- from January 1st 2015 to the present. 19-130 Journalist - copies of any submissions made to the Minister for Finance in 2015, 2016, and 2017 relating to use of special purpose vehicles. Part-Granted. 19-328 Oireachtas Any documents including briefing notes, emails, letters, reports or memos regarding the Special Refused Assignee Relief Programme prepared for or sent to the Minister for Finance between June 1st 2019 and September 12th 2019. 19-329 Journalist copies of any records relating or referring to the possibility of extending a tax relief scheme for Part-Granted sports people to GAA players. This request to cover the period 1 January 2019 to date of receipt of this request 19-331 Journalist - a copy of correspondence during 2019 between David O'Brien from Ryanair and Minister Part-Granted Donohoe in relation to an EU-wide aviation tax.' Page 3 of 16 Department of Finance FOI Disclosure Log Quarter 4 2019 19-332 Journalist I wish to request, under the Freedom of Information Act, access to copies of all submissions made Refused in the 2019 public consultation on the SARP scheme. 19-333 Journalist - all contact between Facebook and officials in the department in each of the following divisions - Refused tax division (all contact), economic policy division (all contact) and Shareholding and Financial Advisory Division (contact relating to cryptocurrency/blockchain) - at the level of higher executive officer, principal officer and assistant principal officer since January 2018. I am requesting the same information for Apple and Google.' 19-334 Journalist I am seeking the release of the following: any correspondence/emails/ between Minister Donohoe Part-Granted and/or Department of Finance officials and Kevin Johnson of the Credit Union Development Association, the details of which were included on a return made on the lobbying register linked below. If you require any further clarification please contact me on the below numbers. https://www.lobbying.ie/return/52758/credit-union-development-association 19-336 Journalist - All correspondence between assistant secretaries John McCarthy and John Hogan with Dublin Part-Granted Chamber of Commerce concerning Budget 2020 since 1 May 2019. - Minutes of any meetings involving the two assistant secretaries mentioned above and the Dublin Chamber of Commerce since 1 May 2019. 19-338 Journalist I request access to records which are non-personal and which I believe are held by The Department Granted of Finance dated between March 1, 2019 and the date of this letter. My request relates to correspondence with Cairn Homes officials and representatives. I request access to: • A record of correspondence, including but not limited to letters, emails, briefing documents, draft briefing documents, reports, draft reports, memos and text messages between Cairn Homes and Minister Paschal Donohoe. • A record of meetings between Cairn Homes and Minister Paschal Donohoe. This should include correspondence about meetings, meeting notes, draft meeting notes, and similar documents. • A record of correspondence, including but not limited to letters, emails, briefing documents, draft briefing documents, reports, draft reports, memos and text messages between Cairn Homes and the Department’s Special Advisor Ed Brophy. Page 4 of 16 Department of Finance FOI Disclosure Log Quarter 4 2019 • A record of meetings between Cairn Homes and the Department’s Special Advisor Ed
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