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Senator David Norris looked for bigger office in Leinster House because he was longest serving politician there

Posted on January 10, 2017 by kenfoxe / 0 Comment

A BIGGER space for the “father of the House”, a Senator’s files and personal belongings packed up and moved to reception, and a dispute betwee...

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Private Papers update: Information Commissioner refuses to re-examine his decision on keeping political expenses secret

Posted on August 10, 2016 by kenfoxe / 3 Comments

The saga of politicians, their expenses and whether they should be considered “private papers” has been rumbling on for almost two years now. Unfo...

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The scourge of politicians and their “private papers”

Posted on April 21, 2016 by kenfoxe / 1 Comment

ONE of the most common criticisms politicians have of journalists is that they are obsessed with TD’s expenses and government waste. Quite aside from the...

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How long did it take to change the rules to keep political expenses secret? All of seventeen seconds

Posted on April 15, 2016 by kenfoxe / 0 Comment

There was an interesting discussion on Broadsheet following my last post on the battle to bring the expense claims of TDs and Senators out into the open. You ...

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Irish politicians introduced a “new protection” which stops their expense claims being made public

Posted on April 11, 2016 by kenfoxe / 2 Comments

First, the bad news. An appeal to get access to the invoices and receipts used by TDs and Senators for claiming their expenses has, perhaps unsurprisingly, be...

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Ending the secrecy that surrounds political expenses in Ireland – the battle resumes

Posted on April 1, 2016 by kenfoxe / 1 Comment

Some of you will recall my efforts to get access to the invoices and receipts submitted by TDs and Senators as part of their expense claims. I’ve written ...

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Ex-Ceann Comhairle Sean Barrett approved €11k in overnight expenses for driver to travel to Dublin to bring him on short commute from Killiney to Leinster House

Posted on March 22, 2016 by kenfoxe / 0 Comment

A personal driver for Ceann Comhairle Sean Barrett ended up being paid more than €10,000 in overnight expenses last year because he travelled from his home in ...

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The cost of Freedom of Information?

Posted on March 15, 2016 by kenfoxe / 0 Comment

We often hear about the cost of Freedom of Information, the large burden it places on public bodies, and the small armies of civil servants who struggle to deal...

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Political Expenses and Data Journalism

Posted on March 14, 2016 by kenfoxe / 0 Comment

This is a presentation I gave in RTÉ late last year to the Hacks/Hackers group about building databases of political expenses and the challenges of trying to pu...

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New FOI Act added “significant protection” from scrutiny for expense claims by TDs and Senators

Posted on February 3, 2016 by kenfoxe / 3 Comments

Over a year ago now, I submitted an FOI request to the Houses of the Oireachtas as part of a project I was working on in the RTÉ Investigations Unit called No E...

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