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FOI Disclosure Log 2025

Date Received  Requester Request Details  Decision Date  Decision
06/01/2025  Business/Interest Group   Copies of any correspondence between the CCPC and Temu with regard to product recalls or faulty products. This request to cover the period 1 Aug 2023 to date. 11/02/2025  Part-Granted
21/02/2025 Journalist 
  • The date range for this request is 01/01/2021 to 31/12/2024 and anything related to the most recent Ticketmaster investigation, launched in September 2024, does not need to be included. 
  • Any compliance reports/notifications submitted by Ticketmaster to the CCPC following the 2021 investigation into Ticketmaster. This includes the reports themselves, any supplementary documentation that may have been provided and any communications, such as emails etc., between the CCPC and Ticketmaster or their legal representatives in relation to these compliance reports/notifications. 
 20/03/2025  Part-Granted
21/02/2025  Journalist  All complaints received by the CCPC between 1 January 2020 and 31 December 2023 concerning: 

  •   Dr. Tony Quinn (also known as Anthony Quinn) 
  • Educo Institute/Educo seminars 
  • Enlightenment Life Coaching (Derby-based entity linked to Pam/Ranj Sidhu) 
  • Any associated companies or trading names (e.g., “Advanced Coaching International”) 

For each complaint, please include: 

  • Date received 
  • Nature of the complaint (e.g., deceptive marketing, pressure selling, financial harm) 
  • Summary of the CCPC’s response (including referrals to other agencies) 
  • Final outcome (if resolved) 

Specifically, any records related to a 2022 complaint from a Kerry-based consumer (referenced in Dialogue Ireland correspondence) alleging deceptive upselling from a free seminar to a €12,000 program. 

 11/03/2025  Refused  
04/03/2025  Journalist  A copy of any correspondence between the CCPC and the Department of Transport and/or the Road Safety Authority with regard to a CCPC proposal for a publicly available free database on car history (including crashes/accidents). This request to cover the period 1 Jan 2024 to date.  24/04/25  Part-Granted 
02/04/2025 Other A) Correspondence from CCPC to Mr Brian O’Driscoll reminding of legal obligations dated April 2024.

B) Copy of Compliance Notice issued to the said Brian O’Driscoll by the CCPC.

 10/04/2025 Part-Granted
03/04/2025 Journalist A record of how much has been spent broken down by year by the CCPC on the sponsorship of the Complaints Bureau TV programme.

A copy of the business case, cost benefit analysis, approval or sanction documents associated with the CCPC sponsorship of this programme and the rationale for it.

 25/04/2025 Part-Granted
07/05/2025 Other In relation to Merger M/24/018 – Phoenix/Cellnex, seeking records relating to;

  • The response to the Request for Further Information by Phoenix (12th June 2024)
  • The response to the Request for Further Information by Cellnex (17th June 2024)
  • Any third-party submissions received during the Phase 2 investigation
  • Any Requests for Further Information issued by the CCPC during Phase 2
  • Any responses received to Requests for Further Information during Phase 2

Types of records being sought for the above are;

  1. Any cover letters from participating third parties to include any indices or lists of attachments
  2. Any legal reports
  3. Any technical reports

Also seeking records relating to the below points;

  • Both third-party submissions received during the Phase 1 investigation –
  • The CCPC’s Request for Further Information of 1st May 2024 to both Phoenix and Cellnex
  • Records of all interviews conducted by the CCPC with third parties in relation to its assessment of the competitive effects of the Proposed Transaction.
  • Phase 2 Report leading to the decision of Thursday 6th February 2025
 03/07/2025 Refused
16/05/2025 Business/Interest Group Furnish us with all Records passing between the CCPC, the Department of Environment, Climate and Communications and the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage that contains information referencing or relating to:

  • the structure and operation of the household waste collection market in Ireland,
  • the system of competition of the household waste collection market in Ireland, and
  • the CCPC statement ‘Current waste market structure will never deliver for Irish public’ dated 15 April 2025.

Date range of request; l January 2024 to 12 May 2025.

 12/06/2025 Refused
19/05/2025 Journalist All correspondence between the CCPC and the Department of Housing relating to the establishment of a step-by-step home-buying guide and establishing a dedicated portal for reporting bad practices, dated between 25/01 and 15/05. 11/06/2025 Refused
04/06/2025 Other
  1. Any records in their original format concerning the following case: …. The complaint was lodged in Poland (ECC Poland) in September 2023.
  2. Please send records  including  timing in regards to European Consumer Centre Ireland not processing complaints in 2024.
 12/06/2025 Refused
05/06/2025 Other The unredacted “Table 4: Price Increases in Q-Park Owned or Operated Off-Street Car Parks City in 2022” on page 106 of the CCPC’s M/22/040 – Q-Park/Tazbell Services merger determination. 25/06/2025 Handled outside FOI
12/06/2025 Journalist
  • A copy of the most up-to-date version of the risk register for the organisation;
  • A copy of the last three internal audits carried out within the organisation;
  • A copy of the last three audits of the organisation carried out by external auditors at the request of the organisation, a parent State body or any other arm of the Government or State;
  • A copy of the last three audits carried out by the organisation of any groups or other entities sitting below it, support by it or funded by it;
 N/A Ongoing
01/07/2025  Other  Records related to AI Act implementation in Ireland, including 

  • policy papers shared by the Department of Enterprise, Tourism and Employment (DETE) with CCPC for the AI Act; and 
  • the submissions/responses from CCPC to the DETE on the policy papers. 

Period of records: February-April 2025. 

 29/07/2025  Refused 
02/09/2025  Journalist  Copy of the data sharing agreement that has been put in place between the CCPC and the Advertising Standards Authority of Ireland.  22/09/2025  Granted 
11/09/2025  Other  I would like a freedom of information access request to access the replies you got relating to the replies you requested by 8th August 2025 regarding the letter: (details supplied).  29/09/2025  Refused  
02/10/2025
Journalist A copy of high-level correspondence between the CCPC and the daa with regard to overcharging of customers in car parks. 30/10/2025 Refused
20/10/2025 Journalist
  • A copy of the most up-to-date tracker for the implementation of recommendations from audits;
  • A list of all audits carried out in the last two years to include the month and year of the audit and the overall assurance rating;
 18/11/2025 Part-Granted
26/11/2025 Other Under the Freedom of Information Act 2014, I request access to the following records from 2020 to the present:

Any economic analysis or modelling carried out by the CCPC relating to fuel (petrol/diesel) price clustering or regional fuel price variations.

 17/12/2025 Part-Granted
15/12/2025 Other Please provide copies of all records held by the CCPC relating to the CCPC’s Phase 1 / preliminary assessment of my complaint concerning Chartered Accountants Ireland (CAI) and its rules on recruitment to and transferring of training contracts, for the period 03/06/2025 to 10/12/2025. My complaint was submitted on 03/06/2025. 

In addition, please include any records created or held for the purpose of this assessment that reference, summarise, compare, or were informed by any other complaint(s) or file(s) concerning CAI’s training contract recruitment/transfer rules (or materially similar restrictions), insofar as those records formed part of, or were relied upon in, the CCPC’s assessment of my complaint.

Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, I request:
all correspondence (including emails and letters) between the CCPC and CAI relating to the assessment;
all records of correspondence between the CCPC and me relating to the assessment;
internal CCPC records evidencing the decision-making, including file notes, minutes/attendance notes, internal emails, and any assessment memo/report recommending closure or next steps (redacted as necessary); and
any records of consultations with third parties carried out for the purpose of the assessment.
any records evidencing or containing the CCPC’s consideration of, or reliance upon, professional regulatory rules in the legal profession in Ireland (including any comparison with the Law Society/Bar-related rules), in assessing whether CAI’s training contract recruitment/transfer restrictions were justified and/or compliant with competition law, including any internal notes, memoranda, emails, meeting notes, or drafts that record that comparative analysis.

 N/A Ongoing
15/12/2025 Other Part A – Section 10 Statement of Reasons (FOI Act 2014)
I request a statement of reasons for the CCPC’s act/decision to conclude my complaint at Phase 1/preliminary assessment stage. In particular, please address (at a minimum): 

  1. Please state whether (and on what basis) the CCPC concluded that CAI’s revised rules do not infringe Irish and/or EU competition law, and set out the principal reasons and material findings of fact underpinning that conclusion. 
  2. Legitimate objective: What objective(s) the CCPC accepted CAI was pursuing through the employer-permission requirement (or revised restriction), and the evidential basis relied upon. 
  3. Inherency/necessity: Why the CCPC considered an employer-consent requirement (or the revised restriction) to be inherent in/necessary for achieving those objective(s), as distinct from less restrictive mechanisms. 
  4. Proportionality / least restrictive means: Why the CCPC considered the restriction went no further than necessary, including what alternatives were assessed and why they were not preferred. 
  5. Comparative evidence (accountancy): How the CCPC reconciled proportionality with the position in comparable professional pathways (e.g., ICAEW that offers the same qualification, the ACA) where mobility appears to be managed via training record sign-off and re-registration rather than employer permission to move. 
  6. Comparative reasoning used: (any material comparative analysis (including any comparison to the Irish legal profession, and/or to alternative accountancy training pathways such as ICAEW), and how that comparison was relevant to the Phase 1 conclusion. 

Part B – Records evidencing the reasons (supplementary to my earlier Section 11/12 request, if required)
Without seeking duplicate copies of records already captured by FOI, please provide (or identify on a schedule where withheld) any record(s) that set out, record, or evidence the reasoning described in Part A, including the Phase 1 assessment memo/report, file notes, internal emails, meeting notes, and any comparative analysis documents.

 N/A Ongoing

 

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