Annual Report 2008 - Text

Certificates Issued under Section 20 and Section 25

Mr Pat Whelan
Director General
Office of the Information Commissioner
18 Lower Leeson Street
Dublin 2

Notification under Section 20 and Section 25 of the Freedom of Information Acts, 1997 & 2003

Dear Mr Whelan,

I refer to your letter dated 23th January 2009 in relation to certificates issued by Secretaries General and Ministers under Section 20 and Section 25 of the Freedom of Information Acts, 1997 and 2003.

Section 20

Please note that a certificate under Section 20 was issued by myself on 11 August, 2006 in relation to Risk Registers.

Section 25

There were no new certificates issued under Section 25 during 2007. However, the Minister renewed two existing Ministerial certificates on 20 February 2008 and 14 March 2008, for a further two years.

Please find enclosed a copy of both certificates as referred to above.

Yours sincerely,

___________

Sean Aylward
Secretary General

4 February 2009

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