{"id":1023,"date":"2010-12-11T00:22:02","date_gmt":"2010-12-11T00:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/2010\/12\/11\/your-country-your-call-foi-docs-reveal-consternation-hubris\/"},"modified":"2010-12-11T00:33:58","modified_gmt":"2010-12-11T00:33:58","slug":"your-country-your-call-foi-docs-reveal-consternation-hubris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/2010\/12\/11\/your-country-your-call-foi-docs-reveal-consternation-hubris\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Country Your Call: FOI docs reveal consternation, hubris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rossa McMahon made a request under FOI for documents from the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Innovation regarding the Your Country, Your Call competition. Mostly, it was refused. <\/p>\n<p>So, being a curious sort, he appealed. This week he received a packet of extra docs. <\/p>\n<p>They are only magic. <\/p>\n<p>Rossa has written an excellent post on <a href=\"http:\/\/aclatterofthelaw.com\/2010\/12\/10\/your-country-your-call-corporate-social-responsibility-at-its-best\/\">A Clatter Of The Law <\/a>taking us through the nuggets of gold. For what it&#8217;s worth, my favourite is either where the Civil Servant in the Micro-Enterprise Policy Unit complains about being pointlessly asked to meet Martin McAleese by Batt O&#8217;Keeffe OR where An Smaoineamh M\u00f3r&#8217;s anonymous author dictates what the Role of The Government is to be in the competition. (Hint: money, free PR and then doing whatever the YCYC people tell them is needed for the &#8216;implementation phase&#8217;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rossa McMahon made a request under FOI for documents from the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Innovation regarding the Your Country, Your Call competition. Mostly, it was refused. So, being a curious sort, he appealed. This week he received a packet of extra docs. They are only magic. Rossa has written an excellent post on A Clatter Of The Law taking us through the nuggets of gold. For what it&#8217;s worth, my favourite is either where the Civil Servant in the Micro-Enterprise Policy Unit complains about being pointlessly asked to meet Martin McAleese by Batt O&#8217;Keeffe OR where An Smaoineamh M\u00f3r&#8217;s anonymous author dictates what the Role of The Government is to be in the competition. (Hint: money, free PR and then doing whatever the YCYC people tell them is needed for the &#8216;implementation phase&#8217;)","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[593],"class_list":["post-1023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irish-politics","tag-ycyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1024,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023\/revisions\/1024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}