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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

 

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