Finance - General Decision Logs - 2026

Requester	Description Of Request	Decision	Decision Details
Journalists	Under the FOI Act 2014, I am seeking the following: - a list of all allowances currently payable or available to members of An Garda Síochána; - the total amount paid under each allowance during the year 2025. - the number of individual recipients of each allowance during that year. I would prefer to receive this information electronically, ideally in its original electronic format. If planning to use a sharefile type service, please ensure it does not involve signing up for an account (a step that is not required for a non-personal FOI request).	Part Grant	Decision_Letter_FOI_000128_2026_Allowances_avaliable_and_payed_in_2025.pdf (size 3.6 MB)
Journalists	Original Request: I am seeking the following under the Freedom of Information Act - The amounts paid to named counselling services for members of An Garda Siochána in 2025 and 2024. The number of Gardai to avail of counselling services provided by the named provider in 2025 and 2024. The number of counselling hours provided by the named counselling providers in 2025 and 2024. A copy of five invoices submitted by the named counselling services in 2025 only. Copies of any internal HR Garda reports on the growing number of Gardai seeking counselling in 2025 only. Clarified Request: I am taking your request to mean that you are looking for the amount paid and name of companies that provide counselling to An Garda Síochána members. Can you please confirm that this is correct. Yes Kathleen That is the case	Part Grant	Decision_Letter_FOI_000155_2026_Payments_to_Councelling_services_2024_and_2025.pdf (size 5.4 MB)
Journalists	Under the Freedom of Information Act 2014, I request records concerning the following: - The annual breakdown of expenditure associated with garda staff assigned to or posted at Shannon Airport for duties concerning surveillance, monitoring and/or protection of US military landing at the airport on US military aircraft or on civilian aircraft carrying US military personnel for the following years: 2003; 2004; 2005; 2006; 2007; 2021; 2022; 2023; 2025 - The number of formal Aid to the Civil Power requests made to the Defence Forces per year between 2003 and 2025 Please provide the requested documents in electronic format and an acknowledgement letter as soon as possible. Please also contact me as early as possible where any potential refinement may be required and/or where costs are envisioned and can be reduced or eliminated through request refinement	Part Grant	Decision_Letter_FOI_000193_2026_Expenditure_garda_staff_at_Shannon_Airport.pdf (size 2.7 MB)
Journalists	Can you supply me with the following information under the FOI Act 2014 1) A list of events within DMR where AGS charged event organisers for policing their events within DMR where the costs are in excess of €4,000 in the years of 2025 and to-date in 2026 in tabular form. Please include date of event and the Garda Division within DMR where each of those events occurred. To be further assistance what I mean as in events eg Concerts, GAA matches etc 2) The dates where AGS invoiced each event organiser seeking these policing costs and the dates in which AGS received their policing costs per event in tabular form 3) The rank of Gardai that can apply for overtime in relation to their events. To be further assistance what I mean eg Gardai up and including to the rank of Inspector can apply for overtime in policing these events 4) The number of times in 2025 and to-date in 2026 where AGS and event organisers disagreed over the amount of policing costs being sought by Gardai in respect of their event 5) As of 1 April 2026 The amount of money still outstanding to AGS in respect to policing events in respect to events that were held in 2025 in tabular form	Part Grant	Decision_Letter_FOI_000204_2026_Costs_of_Policing_events_DMR_2025_and_2026.pdf (size 4 MB)
Journalists	Under the FOI Act 2014, I’d like to request the following: - The sum total spent by AGS on PR services in the past 24 months - Sum total spent by AGS on communications services in the past 24 months - Sum total spent by AGS on crisis comms specifically in the past 24 months	Part Grant	Decision_Letter_FOI_000210_2026_Spend_on_Pr_and_Communication_Services_2yrs.pdf (size 2.2 MB)