I refer to your further request made on 11 May, and subsequent email correspondence of 18 May.
Nature Partners CLG will not provide you with the information requested on a voluntary basis.
Yours sincerely
Joseph O’Rourke
On behalf of HMP Secretarial Limited, Company Secretary to Nature Partners CLG
Joseph O’Rourke | McCann FitzGerald LLP | Senior Associate | Direct +353-1-607 1232 | Mobile +353-87-967 9735
Riverside One, Sir John Rogerson’s Quay, Dublin 2, D02 X576
I refer to your request made to the info@naturetrust.ie email address on 20 February 2023.
You requested all information related to afforestation application CN90557, Stralongford, Co. Leitrim made to DAFM in the name of Nature Partners CLG including information relating to the donation, purchase and / or leasing of the lands concerned by or from Coillte.
We hereby refuse your request on the grounds that Nature Partners CLG is not a public authority for the purposes of the European Communities (Access to Information on the Environment) Regulations 2007 (“AIE Regulations”), and, as Nature Partners CLG is not subject to the AIE Regulations, it is therefore not required to disclose the information requested.
Yours sincerely
Joseph O’Rourke
On behalf of HMP Secretarial Limited, Company Secretary to Nature Partners CLG
Joseph O’Rourke | McCann FitzGerald LLP | Senior Associate | Direct +353-1-607 1232 | Mobile +353-87-967 9735
Riverside One, Sir John Rogerson’s Quay, Dublin 2, D02 X576
Note: this issue could be addressed through the proposed change to Coillte’s mandate, which passed second stage in Seanad Éireann. Provision could be made via legislation to prevent Coillte from establishing or participating in joint ventures which would limit public transparency and accountability