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Hse Fails In Bid To Overturn Decision Permitting Rté To Access Certain

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The Health Service Executive (HSE) has failed in a High Court challenge to a decision permitting RTÉ access to records relating to the compliance of certain HSE employees with their disclosure obligations under the... Ms Justice Marguerite Bolger said the HSE’s criticism of the Information Commissioner for failing to engage with its arguments it made in appealing his decision to allow RTÉ to have the information “have neither... The Ethics Act requires certain employees of public bodies, including the HSE, to file a statement of interest relating to their interests. It also applies to the interests of their spouses or partners or children of which they have actual knowledge, which could materially influence them in or relating to the performance of their official duties. The HSE requires their relevant employees to submit a statement of interest even if they have no such interest, in which case their statements will say “nil interest”. The HSE treats its database of statements of interest confidentially in accordance with its own code of governance.

In May 2022 RTÉ invoked the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act of 2014 in seeking copies of registers from the HSE that recorded the statements of interest submitted by certain designated employees for the... Trusted by the judiciary, government lawyers, prosecutors, and many leading counsel. Click here to request a subscription. or click here to request site subscription to search and view all judgments High Court refuses an appeal by the Health Service Executive (HSE), upholding the Information Commissioner's decision to grant RTE access to records concerning HSE employees' compliance with disclosure obligations under ethics legislation, on the... Health Service Executive (HSE) - Information Commissioner - RTE - Ethics in Public Office Act, 1995 - Freedom of Information Act, 2014 - Compliance records - Disclosure obligations - Public sector employees - Confidentiality...

Note: This is intended to be a fair and accurate report of a decision made public by a court of law. Any errors should be notified to the editor and will be dealt with accordingly. The High Court has dismissed the HSE’s appeal of a decision of the Information Commissioner which determined that the HSE could not withhold registers concerning its employees’ interests following a request by RTÉ. Delivering judgment for the High Court, Ms Justice Marguerite Bolger determined that the HSE had advanced no basis for a restrictive application of s.35(2)(c)(i) of the Ethics in Public Office Act 1995, that there... Eoin McCullough SC and Aoife Carroll BL appeared for the appellant, and Francis Kieran BL appeared for the respondent. Claire Hogan BL appeared for the notice party, RTÉ.

The Ethics in Public Office Act 1995 requires certain employees of public bodies to file a statement of interest relating to their own interests and those of their spouses, partners or children of which... In May 2022, RTÉ sought copies of HSE registers which recorded statements of interest submitted by certain employees under the 1995 Act for the years 2015 to 2021, including the names of employees who... The HSE refused RTE’s request, and upheld that decision on internal review. RTÉ lodged an appeal with the respondent. What happened with the RTE scandal? Now that we’ve seen thorough reporting about the goings on at Ireland’s public broadcaster, can we pinpoint where it all went wrong?

Yes, we can. Leadership is at the heart of the problem, fed by a lack of governance education and a critical breakdown in trust. It must be rectified if the organisation wishes to win back the confidence of the people it serves. It’s a high-profile financial and governance scandal involving Ireland’s state broadcaster, Radio Telefís Eireann (RTE). In July 2023, it emerged that the organisation’s top presenter was paid more than public accounts declared and that this extra cash came through an undisclosed barter account. Like many governance scandals, one revelation fed into another.

You can read more about these individual cases below, but to sum up, RTE quickly faced accusations that its entire governance structure was seriously flawed. Case relates to compliance of some HSE employees with disclosure obligations The Ethics Act requires certain employees of public bodies, including the HSE , to file a statement of interest relating to their interests, and RTÉ requested some information relating to this. Photograph: Alan Betson / The Irish Timesaccess to records relating to the compliance of certain HSE employees with their disclosure obligations under the Ethics in Public Office Act, 1995. Ms Justice Marguerite Bolger said the HSE’s criticism of the Information Commissioner for failing to engage with its arguments it made in appealing his decision to allow RTÉ to have the information “have neither... The Ethics Act requires certain employees of public bodies, including the HSE, to file a statement of interest relating to their interests.

It also applies to the interests of their spouses or partners or children of which they have actual knowledge, which could materially influence them in or relating to the performance of their official duties. The HSE requires their relevant employees to submit a statement of interest even if they have no such interest, in which case their statements will say “nil interest”. The HSE treats its database of statements of interest confidentially in accordance with its own code of governance.Joe Biden has ended the agony. The Democrats now have a fighting chance to save the American republicIn May 2022 RTÉ invoked the Freedom of Information Act of 2014 in seeking copies of registers from the HSE that recorded the... The HSE’s freedom of information decision-maker refused the request, and that decision was upheld by an internal review. RTÉ lodged an appeal with the Information Commissioner who, following a process, held that the HSE was not justified in refusing access under the Freedom of Information Act.

However, the commissioner said certain information could be blacked out. The HSE brought a High Court appeal against the commissioner over the decision, with RTÉ as a notice party. The HSE argued, among other things, that the commissioner wrongly concluded that the information sought by RTÉ came within the exclusions to the definition of personal information under the FOI Act, having had regard... It was also argued that the commissioner failed to address the arguments they made that disclosure was precluded due to duty of confidence requirements. It argued the commissioner failed to give reasons for the decision as required by law.Refusing the appeal, Ms Justice Bolger said the commissioner recorded and considered the arguments made by the HSE, both of... “The brevity with which this was done reflects the extent and relevance of the argument made by the HSE”, she said.Man appears in court following seizure of drugs worth more than €9m and €1m...

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