Received 21 September 2023
Decided
Refused
Request Reference 23/291
Requester Type Business/Interest Group
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

I note there is a lobbying return from the Irish Farmers Association published on 16th September 2023 ‘to establish the Department of Agriculture, Food, and the Marine's position on the RTE programme as the Department is the Regulator in this instance.’ There were a number of emails, a meeting with DAFM and a social media action. Brendan Gleeson is named in the lobbying return. https://www.lobbying.ie/return/100126/the-irish-farmers-association---ifa The Standards in Public Office Commission guidance states at page 15 that: "Public bodies and DPOs should, therefore, ensure that a proper record is maintained of all correspondence with a lobbyist on a particular matter. This might also include a record or account of casual or social encounters where the DPO considers a lobbying activity to have occurred." https://www.lobbying.ie/media/6185/guidelines-for-dpos-february-2019-final.pdf Can I please request copies of records of all communications related to this lobbying return including emails and minutes of the meeting.