Received
Decided 24 October 2017
Part-Granted
Request Reference FOI/2017/0205
Requester Type
Department of the Taoiseach

1. All records including invoices, bills, approval letters, memos, e mails and others forms of messages etc. between the Department of An Taoiseach and third parties pertaining to the accommodation, air flights, road transport, VIP service facilities, other transport, and general costs of the recent visit of An Taoiseach to Canada and the United States. I am requesting that these costs be broken down according to the number and rank of people travelling and accommodated, type of room/accommodation requested and provided, class of air flight tickets requested and provided, number and type of road transport requested and provided, class of other transport requested and provided, and VIP service facilities requested and provided. 2. All internal Department of An Taoiseach correspondence, (including letters, memos, faxes, briefing documents, invitations, emails, SMS messages and social media messages), pertaining to the recent visit of An Taoiseach to the United States and Canada, but not including correspondence regarding logistical arrangements. 3. All inderdepartmental correspondence between the Department of An Taoiseach and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade; the Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation; the IDA, and the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport which contains briefing material for any element of the Taoiseach's recent visit to the United States and Canada. 4. All external correspondence including letters, memos, faxes, e mails, SMS messages and social media messages between the Department of An Taoiseach, Prime Minister Trudeau’s office, the Canadian Head of Protocol, the Chicago Mayor’s office, the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, Canadian Border Patrol and the Montreal Pride Festival pertaining to the recent visit of An Taoiseach to Canada and the United States. 5. All internal correspondence including e mails, memos, SMS messages and social media messaging pertaining to George Hooks’ tweet about An Taoiseach’s visit and Newstalk coverage of visit.