{"id":70909,"date":"2025-09-18T04:55:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T04:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/70909\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T04:55:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T04:55:14","slug":"simon-harris-says-he-is-open-to-making-the-presidents-office-subject-to-foi-requests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/70909\/","title":{"rendered":"Simon Harris says he is \u2018open\u2019 to making the president\u2019s office subject to FoI requests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Candidates also back transparency for role\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Presidential candidates Heather Humphreys and Jim Gavin bumped into each other at the National Ploughing Championships. Photo: PA\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/a0ad7bf4-516c-4459-85a5-fb3f0981321d.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Presidential candidates Heather Humphreys and Jim Gavin bumped into each other at the National Ploughing Championships. Photo: PA<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">T\u00e1naiste Simon Harris has said he is open to making the office of the \u00adpresident subject to Freedom of Information (FoI) requests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Specified public bodies, including government departments, are legally obliged to release information to the public or the media if requested to do so through a FoI request.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Candidates also back transparency for role Presidential candidates Heather Humphreys and Jim Gavin bumped into each other at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,1921,13,14,6,555,19487,11,12,15,16,1874,5,59,44,30656,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-70909","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-catherine-connolly","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-heather-humphreys","15":"tag-jim-gavin","16":"tag-latest-news","17":"tag-latestnews","18":"tag-main-news","19":"tag-mainnews","20":"tag-michael-d-higgins","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-presidential-election","23":"tag-simon-harris","24":"tag-tabitha-monahan","25":"tag-top-stories","26":"tag-topstories","27":"tag-world","28":"tag-world-news","29":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}