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2022 FOI disclosure logs

FOI10404

Status Refused
Date received 16 Dec 2022
Date of decision 13 Jan 2023
Category of requester Journalist
Details of request

I would like to request all correspondence between senior management of ESB Networks DAC and the corporate entities controlling garage forecourts in Ireland. I wish to request correspondence which is specifically related to the price of providing connections to the distribution system for electric charging points. (In a nutshell I understand there has been discussion regarding the price ESB is charging garage forecourts nationally to install charging points for electric cars and I'm trying to request that documentation.)

 I wish the request to cover the period from January 1st, 2022 to the present day.

 

FOI10402

Status Refused
Date received 07 Dec 2022
Date of decision 16 Dec 2022
Category of requester Journalist
Details of request
All correspondence between ESB and services stations (ie: petrol and diesel retailers) in the Republic of Ireland regarding the installation charging points for electric cars on forecourts. I would like this request to cover the period from January 1, 2021 and the present day. I would like the request to cover all letters and emails.

FOI10401

Status Withdrawn
Date received 20 Nov 2022
Date of decision 09 Dec 2022
Category of requester Business / Interest Group
Details of request

A copy of the DPIA associated with the collection of data on households through smart meters by ESB Networks.

FOI10399

Status Part-Granted
Date received 25 Oct 2022
Date of decision 23 Nov 2022
Category of requester Client
Details of request

I would like to request, under the Freedom of Information Act, all records and correspondence held by the ESB/between the ESB and tech companies about preparations, contingency planning and any other plans, strategies, concerns or discussions for potential blackouts this winter.

FOI10395

Status Part-Granted
Date received 11 Oct 2022
Date of decision 02 Nov 2022
Category of requester Client
Details of request

All data or correspondence relating to the site at the ESB sub station at Greenlea Grove, maps, site visit notes, emails in relation to the sale of the site, advice or opinions sought by the developer or between departments in ESB and or ESBN in connection with the original and subsequent planning applications and also during the development at the site, documentation of any assessments made by ESB on the plans for the hobby workshop or any other changes made under the original planning granted, requests for meetings at the site by the developer, subsequent summary notes of any meetings which may have taken place following onsite meetings, correspondence, if any, with the developer in relation to the painting of the sub-station or suitability of the site for development with any 3rd parties and any general communication which references this location e.g. legal department, engineers, security etc between 22 February 2022 and 10 October.

FOI10394

Status Granted
Date received 02 Oct 2022
Date of decision 24 Oct 2022
Category of requester Client
Details of request

The official statement and official reasons why there was a power outage in Shelbourne Road Limerick on the 2 day of October 2022.

FOI10393

Status Part-Granted
Date received 27 Sep 2022
Date of decision 25 Oct 2022
Category of requester Client
Details of request
  1. Since 2000 how many communications have you had from customers in relation to any and all concerns they have with TIMECLOCK ERRORS on the electricity meter supplied to them
  2. Has there been an internal review of faulty or erroneous meter timeclocks supplied to customers since 2000, and can you provide a copy of this
  3. In relation to customers who may have been overcharged, what is the procedure for addressing this?
  4. In instances where customers may have been undercharged, what procedure do you follow
  5. Where inaccurate equipment has been installed, has each customer affected been notified.
  6. Can you outline how it may occur that faulty timeclocks have been installed, ie who is to blame for inaccurate timeclocks.

FOI00797

Status Refused
Date received 25 Sep 2022
Date of decision 25 Oct 2022
Category of requester Journalist
Details of request
Please can you let me know whether it's possible to provide the infrastructure for the distribution network (cables, overhead lines, substations) in GIS format under the information requests?

FOI10387

Status Refused
Date received 09 Sep 2022
Date of decision 12 Sep 2022
Category of requester Journalist
Details of request
  1. Does the ESB provide a discount or subsidy to employees on their gas and/or electricity bills?
  2. If so how many employees are entitled to it?
  3. How is the discount calculated - ie is it a fixed amount per employee and if so what is that fixed amount?  Or is it a percentage of the total bill?  Or is it some other method?
  4. How much did the discount cost the company for the last full financial year?  Will the cost of the discount to the company increase in line with increases in energy prices?

FOI10386

Status Granted
Date received 08 Sep 2022
Date of decision 08 Oct 2022
Category of requester Client
Details of request
  1. Access under 2014 Act to details of suppliers of area maps for Sligo town used on ESB Networks website. The query also seeks date of Sligo map currently used on website and seeks date of its most recent revision.
  2. Access under 2014 Act to any corporate description, internal or external, as how/why Martin Savage Terrace is excluded from such maps. When did this exclusion commence?

FOI103840

Status Part-Granted
Date received 29 Aug 2022
Date of decision 28 Sep 2022
Category of requester Journalist
Details of request

Records that show the number of electricity disconnections undertaken by ESB Networks under direction of suppliers for a non-payment of debt, from 1 January 2019 to date, and broken down by:

i. month if possible -- so for Jan 2019, Feb 2019, March 2019 -- and if not by quarter and also by residential and non-residential connections each month

iii. and I would like the figures broken down for Co. Dublin, and outside of Co Dublin

FOI10383

Status Granted
Date received 28 Jul 2022
Date of decision 17 Aug 2022
Category of requester Business / Interest Group
Details of request
Information on connection date/details on the individual phases/units and meter installations in Drynham Heath development Feltrim, Kinsealy, Co Dublin.

FOI10381

Status Part-Granted
Date received 27 Jul 2022
Date of decision 16 Aug 2022
Category of requester Client
Details of request

All records and correspondence in relation to flooding, flood defence, sewage discharges onto sandmount strand with OPW, Irish Water and DCC.

All records and correspondence with the above parties in relation to proposed cycle path on Beach Road and Strand Road, Sandymount.

FOI10382

Status Part-Granted
Date received 27 Jul 2022
Date of decision 24 Aug 2022
Category of requester Client
Details of request
A copy of the board minutes for the most recent six-month period that they are available.

FOI10380

Status Refused
Date received 25 Jul 2022
Date of decision 12 Aug 2022
Category of requester Journalist
Details of request
Copies any and all quarterly earnings/profit/financial reports compiled for ESB Networks so far this year.

FOI10378

Status Refused
Date received 19 Jul 2022
Date of decision 27 Jul 2022
Category of requester Client
Details of request

Request access to the following documentation between the years of 1996 and 2000:

1. The full record of annual maximum peak follows recorded at the following gauging stations that were operated by ESB:

a. Lee at Leemount Upper;

b. Lee at Leemount Lower;

c. Shournagh at Healy's Bridge.

2. Regulations and Guidelines for the Control of the River Lee.

3. Tables showing the relationship between water level and stored volume for Inniscarra and Carrigadrohid Reservoirs

FOI10376

Status Granted
Date received 08 Jul 2022
Date of decision 03 Aug 2022
Category of requester Client
Details of request

On the 8/10/2021 I received an email from you in response to an FOI request regarding outages in my area  - FOI 10341.  I now wish to request the same information up to and including the 8/7/2022. In virtually all outages in our area the same 106 customers are affected yet that figure appears nowhere on the list I received.

FOI10375

Status Refused
Date received 06 Jul 2022
Date of decision 15 Jul 2022
Category of requester Client
Details of request

Access to any external evaluations of the board of ESB since 2018.

FOI10374

Status Refused
Date received 13 Jun 2022
Date of decision 30 Jun 2022
Category of requester Business / Interest Group
Details of request

In relation to all CCTV cameras that you have procured from 2017 until the present, please provide:

the names of each company and the names of the products including the model numbers

the contracts with each company

the cost per unit and the total costs, and

the duration of contracts and/or licenses.

Please provide records that state the capability of the CCTV cameras (along with their storage and processing units whether locally, on a server or in the cloud), such as facial recognition, temperature/thermal scanning, behaviour analysis, object detection or demographic detection (i.e. age, gender, clothing etc).

Please also provide the documents and communication related to the tender process for all CCTV cameras, that has been procured between 2017 until the present.

FOI10371

Status Refused
Date received 31 May 2022
Date of decision 23 Jun 2022
Category of requester Business / Interest Group
Details of request
All documents which evidence that the fibre optic cable laid was part of the original scheme in connection with the Arva shankill No. 2 110Kv line in 2012.  Any documents which establish as a fact, whether the initial 2012 project included the additional fibre optic or if the 2012 line was completed, whether the addition of a fibre optic cable at a later date amounted to an alteration of the line.