Office of Public Works

Under the FOI Act to request: OPW manual / records related to deer management, deer culling and humane dispatch of deer Description of records: health and safety practices, checklists, animal welfare issues, carcass disposal etc as used by operatives in Phoenix Park For context: IDC trains licenced deer hunters under a LANTRA accredited programme to respond to requests by competent authorities for humane dispatch of deer IDC via Chairman, Ashley Glover requested the records via email on 29th Jan, again via meeting with Paul McDonnell, Parks Superintendent on 14th April. Mr McDonnell showed the documents in question, and ran through to confirm the scope of the records, but subsequently refused to release a copy of records to IDC (via email 17th April). Mr McDonnell instead referred IDC to a health and safety consultant (Mark Daniels in UK) to commission equivalent records. As a volunteer humane dispatch service, IDC would not be in a position to fund such an undertaking, so are requesting the records under FOI Please note this request is for the current manual / records (dated 2016). IDC understand that OPW intend to review these manuals