Department of Climate, Energy and the Environment

This request relates to the below ad which appeared in the Longford Leader and disgracefully speaks about people from the "middle of nowhere" - this just about sums up the Department. 1. All records relating to the creation to this ad. All emails. All names of those involved. 2. Records of all evidence that rural people don't recycle as much as urban people. 3. Records of all correspondence relating to the granting approval for this ad to be published. 4. Records of all correspondence relating the the location "the middle of nowhere". 5. Records of the published apology for publishing such a condescending and false ad. 6. All names of those involved in mywaste.ie and their locations. 7. All correspondence between the department and mywaste.ie in the past 12 months. 8. Records of brown bin uptake for every county in Ireland.