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FOI Reference Category Description Decision Decision Date TRA-FOI FOI Reference Category Description Decision Decision Date I would like to request under Freedom Of Information Act 2014 all communication sent and received, including any documents or attachments, and all minutes of meetings held, by the Office of the Minister for Transport and the Environment, Climate and Communications, including the Minister himself, in relation to the Motion re proposed ratification by Ireland of the EU- Canada Strategic Partnership Agreement on Tuesday 15 December 2020, and also the postponement of that motion and ratification vote. The TRA-FOI-2021-0001 Oireachtas search should be limited to November 1 2020 to the present. Refuse 01/02/2021 * Copies of all correspondence to/from Minister Eamon Ryan and the chief executives of the following companies/agencies between June 27, 2020 and January 5, 2021: •Irish Rail - Jim Meade •Dublin Bus - Ray Coyne •Bus Éireann - Stephen Kent •Luas/Transdev UK and Ireland - Louis Rambaud •National Transport Authority - Anne Graham •DAA - Dalton Philips •Shannon Group - Mary Considine •Aer Lingus - former CEO Seán Doyle & interim CEO Donal Moriarty TRA-FOI-2021-0002 Journalists •Ryanair - Michael O'Leary (CEO Ryanair Group) and Eddie Wilson (CEO Ryanair DAC) Refuse 15/01/2021 A copy of all documents, submissions, memos, minutes, briefing documents, and any subsequent correspondence and/or internal departmental communications, related to TRA-FOI-2021-0003 Journalists the following lobbying return: https://www.lobbying.ie/return/64992/murray Refuse 02/02/2021 Any correspondence (sent and received) between the office(s) of Minister Eamon Ryan and the following public representatives (including their offices within the Oireachtas), between the dates 27th June 2020 and 31st December 2020: - Brian Leddin TD - Stephen Matthews TD - Marc Ó Cathasaigh TD - Sen. Róisín Garvey TRA-FOI-2021-0004 Other - Sen. Pauline O'Reilly Refuse 04/02/2021 All records relating to Atlas Air Inc flight 5Y2886 Date : 29/08/2014 From McGuire Air Force Base (New Jersey) USA to Shannon and From Shannon to TRA-FOI-2021-0005 Other Al Udeid Air Base, Doha Qatar Part-grant 22/02/2021 a)A copy of all documents held by the Department of Transport or ascertainable / procurable by the Department of Transport in accordance with law, in respect of the inclusion of the Irish Coursing Club, and its sport of coursing, as being a sport permitted to operate pursuant to the Health Act 1947 (as amended) according to Statutory Instrument No. 560/2020, including communications with other Departments/Ministers/Ministers of State (including the Department of An Taoiseach/An Taoiseach) in respect of the foregoing, and also including e-mails/communications to and from the Minister for Transport and the Minister for Transport’s private office and others, to include the personal (non-departmental) email addresses of the Minister for Transport, and text messages/whatsapp messages, and any other forms of personal communications emanating from the Minister for Transport’s official phone and communication devices and/or any other phones or communication devices the Minister for Transport uses/has used for Departmental business, such as the within business, during the relevant time period. b)A copy of all documents held by the Department of Transport or ascertainable / procurable by the Department of Transport in accordance with law, in respect of the delisting of the Irish Coursing Club, and its sport of coursing, as being a sport permitted to operate pursuant to the Health Act 1947 (as amended) according to Statutory Instrument No. 695/2020, including communications with other Departments/Ministers/Ministers of State (including the Department of An Taoiseach/An Taoiseach) in respect of the foregoing, and also including e-mails/communications to and from the Minister for Transport and the Minister for Transport’s private office and others, to include the personal (non-departmental) email addresses of the Minister for Transport, and text messages/whatsapp messages, and any other forms of personal communications emanating from the Minister for Transport’s official phone and communication devices and/or any other phones or communication devices the Minister for Transport uses/has TRA-FOI-2021-0006 Client used for Departmental business, such as the within business, during the relevant time Grant 11/02/2021 All correspondence, including any texts, emails, transcripts of calls, or private messages between the Minister for Transport and Rose Hynes between the period 03 September 2020 and the present day. All correspondence held by the Department, including any texts, emails, transcripts of calls or private messages regarding the appointment of Rose Hynes as interim chair of the TRA-FOI-2021-0007 Journalists Irish Aviation Authority. Part-grant 17/02/2021 A copy of any email correspondences with Stena Group from August 2020 to January TRA-FOI-2021-0008 Other 2021, relating to establishing new ferry routes in Ireland. Refuse 09/02/2021 I request copies of all correspondence between the Department and Chevron, Exxon Mobil, Shell, Princess Cruises, Carnival UK, in relation to cadet training,for the years 2018- TRA-FOI-2021-0009 Other 2020 inclusive. Refuse 09/02/2021 I request copies of any correspondence between the Department and Maritime/Shipping TRA-FOI-2021-0010 Other Attaches that are stationed in Ireland, for the years 2015-2020, inclusive. Refuse 01/02/2021 All correspondence received by the department from members of the public in relation to the MV ALTA Wreck from the date of wreck to the date of receipt of this email. All correspondence received by the department from Cork County Council in relation to the MV ALTA Wreck from the date of wreck to the date of receipt of this email. All correspondence sent by the department to Cork County Council in relation to the MV ALTA Wreck from the date of wreck to the date of receipt of this email. All correspondence sent by the department in a bid to establish the owner of the vessel in TRA-FOI-2021-0011 Other relation to the MV ALTA Wreck from the date of wreck to the date of receipt of this email. Part-grant 10/02/2021 All available records relating to flight Antonov Design Bureau 3492 of aircraft UR-82027 Detroit to Shannon arriving in Shannon TUESDAY 08-DEC-2020 10:23PM GMT TRA-FOI-2021-0012 Other Shannon to Djibouti departing Shannon WEDNESDAY 09-DEC-2020 11:56PM GMT Part-grant 02/03/2021 the number of responses the department received in the MN No 42 of 2018, the Consultation on ILO Work in Fishing Convention, 2007 (C188) and EU Directive 2017/159 on the implementation of the social partners’ agreement on the Work in Fishing Convention, with a break down of how many of these were written submissions and how many of these were emailed submissions TRA-FOI-2021-0013 Other a copy of each submission made to the department Grant 08/02/2021 The last 15 emails sent by the Minister for this Department, including emails they were TRA-FOI-2021-0014 Journalists responding to,from the time of receipt of this FOI Part-grant 11/02/2021 all records including e-mail relating to Kalitta Air LLC Flight : CKS411 From McGuire Air Force Base (New Jersey) USA to Ramstein Air Base Germany TRA-FOI-2021-0015 Other which was permitted by DTTAS to overfly Ireland on 08/04/2014 Part-grant 03/03/2021 TRA-FOI-2021-0016 Journalists A copy of all audits completed by the internal audit division in 2020. Part-grant 12/02/2021 All correspondence between the Department and the RSA between 20th October 2020 TRA-FOI-2021-0017 Journalists and 15th January 2021. Part-grant 19/02/2021 All electronic and written communication to the Minister for Transport relating to Covid- 19 quarantine, Covid-19 testing for international arrivals in our airports and/or other restrictions for international arrivals in our airports, sent between November 1st 2020 TRA-FOI-2021-0018 Oireachtas and January 18th 2021. Refuse 26/02/2021 A copy of the independent review completed by the Irish Coastguard in relation to the TRA-FOI-2021-0019 Other Solstice SAR response by HMCG. Refuse 15/02/2021 1. All records and correspondence held by the Department of Transport relating to a briefing/presentation on 2020 government formation talks/programme for Government provided to either the Green Party, Fine Gael, and/or Fianna Fáil. This request is for records related to that presentation, and associated correspondence, and records related to other similar presentations provided to Fine Gael or Fianna Fáil or the Greens. 2. All briefings or analysis compiled by the Department of Transport on policy proposals as TRA-FOI-2021-0020 Other part of the 2020 government formation talks/programme for Government 2020. Refuse 15/02/2021 I request the report, in electronic format, compiled as a result of the survey circulated in Handled MN No. 38 of 2020. outside of TRA-FOI-2021-0021 Other FOI 19/01/2021 1. Number of engineering staff in your organisation who were paid or reimbursed either in part or full their annual membership fees for Engineers Ireland for the years 2018 and 2019. 2. A list of all and any other professional subscriptions or membership fees (broken down by name of institution, and staff grade and number of each separately) either paid or TRA-FOI-2021-0022 Other reimbursed, party or fully, during 2018 and 2019. Grant 15/02/2021 1. Correspondence send and received between the Minister and the Irish Coast Guard between 1st January and 29th December 2020 (excluding event invitations). ***update from requester*** Timeframe changed to between 1st October 2020 and 19th January 2021 (excluding TRA-FOI-2021-0023 Journalists event invitations). Refuse 17/02/2021 1.
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