Joe McHugh (Donegal, Fine Gael)
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Since the sale of the stadium was closed, public access to records on the purchase of the stadium has been provided via the provisions of the Freedom of Information legislation. The information requested by the Deputy was released under the provisions of Freedom of Information on 24 August 2018 in response to two requests.

My Department publishes details of FOI requests on its FOI disclosure log. The general procedure is that this log is updated approximately 8 – 10 weeks after a response to an FOI request has issued. The reason for this time lapse is to allow for an appeal to a decision. In this instance, as the information was released on 24 August (just over 7 weeks ago), the details were due to be added to the published disclosure log very shortly in accordance with normal procedures.

However, in the interests of transparency I have asked my Department to expedite the inclusion of these two requests on the published FOI disclosure log this week and also to publish the records themselves later with other relevant material.