Mel McWeeney
Mel McWeeney
Grounds for Appeal
Further to my earlier correspondence, I've been reviewing the accumulated documentation to date related to the case. In particular I've been reviewing the "Complaint Examination Process" emailed to me Aidan Moore Aidan Moore aidan.moore@ombudsman.gov.ie info@lobbying.ie (01) 6395711 (087) 9175186 (01) 639 5684 https://twitter.com/aidanmmoore81 https://twicopy.org/aidanmmoore81/ https://www.lobbying.ie/ https://twitter.com/LobbyingIE Peter Tyndall Peter Tyndall Peter Tyndall Office of the Ombudsman Irish Office of the Ombudsman The Irish Ombudsman Office of the Information Commissioner Standards in Public Office Commission http://ombudsman.gov.ie/ https://twitter.com/officeombudsman https://www.linkedin.com/company/office-of-the-ombudsman-ireland Investigates complaints about public officials. 18 Lower Leeson Street Dublin D02 HE97 Ireland (1890)253238 (01)6395689 (01)6395674 (01)6395676 Dáil Éireann The Government of Ireland Kildare Street Dublin Ireland by Deirdre Morgan deirdre_morgan Deirdre Morgan deirdre.morgan@ombudsman.gov.ie Peter Tyndall Peter Tyndall Peter Tyndall Office of the Ombudsman Irish Office of the Ombudsman The Irish Ombudsman Office of the Information Commissioner Standards in Public Office Commission http://ombudsman.gov.ie/ https://twitter.com/officeombudsman https://www.linkedin.com/company/office-of-the-ombudsman-ireland Investigates complaints about public officials. 18 Lower Leeson Street Dublin D02 HE97 Ireland (1890)253238 (01)6395689 (01)6395674 (01)6395676 Dáil Éireann The Government of Ireland Kildare Street Dublin Ireland on 09 Jan 2014 in an attempt to make sense of my dissatisfaction.
I'd noted that it may be necessary to get further information... or meet with officials or others, and had a genuine expectation that this would happen, and had expected that to be my opportunity to give my side of events to impartial ears, but this never happened.
At the very outset, I wrote a formal complaint to Mr. Francis Sheridan Francis Sheridan Frank Sheridan Francis Sheridan https://www.facebook.com/ThePhoenixMagazine/posts/793100590707225 https://twitter.com/thephoenixmag/status/425221171408142337 Longford County Council Longford County Council http://longfordcoco.ie/ Longford County Council Great Water Street Longford Co. Longford N39 NH56 Ireland 043 3343000 Longford Sports and Leisure http://longfordsportsandleisure.ie/ County Longford Sports and Leisure Centre Public Sports Facility The Mall Longford Co. Longford Ireland 043 3346536 043 3346431 longfordsportscentre@eircom.net http://longfordsportsandleisure.ie/other/images/building_sm.jpg 1 Longford County Library Longford County Library Longford County Library Town Centre Longford Co. Longford Ireland 043 3340727 library@longfordcoco.ie http://www.longfordlibrary.ie/ https://www.facebook.com/longfordlibraries/ https://twitter.com/Longfordlibrary https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVa8Z_ohzcuhS530lvJRtng https://vimeo.com/longfordlibrary (Longford County Council), about Mr. Dan Rooney Dan Rooney Dan Rooney (043)3341470 Knockahaw, Dublin Road, Longford https://ie.linkedin.com/in/dan-rooney-23291431 https://www.google.ie/maps/@53.7237069,-7.7801794,3a,60y,180h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s6KzPuGrC8gSRpZm_lBMcAg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 Longford Town Council Longford Town Council http://www.longfordcoco.ie/longfordtowncouncil.htm Longford Town Council 2014-06-01 Noleen Rooney Noeleen Rooney Noeleen Rooney (043)3341470 noeleenrooney@gaelic.ie Knockahaw, Dublin Road, Longford https://www.google.ie/maps/@53.7237069,-7.7801794,3a,60y,180h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s6KzPuGrC8gSRpZm_lBMcAg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 Scoil Eimear Scoil Eimear Longford, Ireland http://homepage.eircom.net/~scoileimear/ scoileimear.ias@eircom.net (043) 3341188 Janet McWeeney Janet McWeeney Janet McWeeney Melview, Longford http://www.facebook.com/janet.mcweeney.71 https://twitter.com/janet_mcweeney https://plus.google.com/103458702149776151915 http://i370.photobucket.com/albums/oo147/padraic17/CD4DidiFotoFrame/May2008085.jpg http://i370.photobucket.com/albums/oo147/padraic17/CD4DidiFotoFrame/June-July2008450.jpg http://i370.photobucket.com/albums/oo147/padraic17/CD4DidiFotoFrame/June-July2008112.jpg https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CWlJefcWsAA-3V6.jpg https://www.google.ie/maps/@53.7591374,-7.7882166,3a,60y,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sCugZpUpHWeYECSNPD_YRXQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 https://www.google.ie/maps/@53.7592479,-7.7880769,3a,30y,301.44h,92.76t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sCxb_2e0EQep4SCbti_skMQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 Padraic McWeeney Padraic McWeeney Padraic McWeeney Teacher https://ie.linkedin.com/in/padraic-mcweeney-8b6456a6 https://www.facebook.com/public/Padraic-McWeeney https://twitter.com/padraicmcweeney http://s370.photobucket.com/user/padraic17/profile/ http://http://www.stmelscollege.ie/staff/ http://https://plus.google.com/108371234081093300747 padraicmcweeney@yahoo.ie http://www.longfordleader.ie/resizer/750/-1/false/1508323984702.JPG--longford_community_games.JPG?1508323987000 http://i370.photobucket.com/albums/oo147/padraic17/CD4DidiFotoFrame/OctNov2008098.jpg http://i370.photobucket.com/albums/oo147/padraic17/CD4DidiFotoFrame/May2008103.jpg http://i370.photobucket.com/albums/oo147/padraic17/CD4DidiFotoFrame/P1310062.jpg http://i370.photobucket.com/albums/oo147/padraic17/CD4DidiFotoFrame/July2008067.jpg http://i370.photobucket.com/albums/oo147/padraic17/CD4DidiFotoFrame/June-July2008243.jpg http://i370.photobucket.com/albums/oo147/padraic17/Japan%202006/P7220397.jpg http://i370.photobucket.com/albums/oo147/padraic17/Japan%202006/P7220405.jpg http://i370.photobucket.com/albums/oo147/padraic17/Japan%202006/P7210342.jpg http://i370.photobucket.com/albums/oo147/padraic17/Japan%202006/P7220395.jpg http://i370.photobucket.com/albums/oo147/padraic17/Japan%202006/P7170166.jpg http://i370.photobucket.com/albums/oo147/padraic17/Japan%202006/P7170166.jpg http://i370.photobucket.com/albums/oo147/padraic17/Japan%202006/P7170184.jpg http://i370.photobucket.com/albums/oo147/padraic17/Japan%202006/P7160149.jpg http://i370.photobucket.com/albums/oo147/padraic17/Japan%202006/P7160148.jpg https://www.google.ie/maps/@53.7591374,-7.7882166,3a,60y,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sCugZpUpHWeYECSNPD_YRXQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 St. Mels College Longford, Ireland http://stmelscollege.ie stmels@stmelscollege.ie (043) 3346469 (043) 3346905 Scoil Eimear Scoil Eimear Longford, Ireland http://homepage.eircom.net/~scoileimear/ scoileimear.ias@eircom.net (043) 3341188 Longford Swimming Club Longford Swimming Club The Mall, Longford, Ireland http://longfordswimmingclub.com https://www.facebook.com/LongfordSwimmingClub/ https://twitter.com/LongfordSC (Longford Town Council) about my treatment by "a company" owned by both Councils jointly. I believe I had a reasonable expectation that Office of the Ombudsman Irish Office of the Ombudsman The Irish Ombudsman Office of the Information Commissioner Standards in Public Office Commission http://ombudsman.gov.ie/ https://twitter.com/officeombudsman https://www.linkedin.com/company/office-of-the-ombudsman-ireland Investigates complaints about public officials. 18 Lower Leeson Street Dublin D02 HE97 Ireland (1890)253238 (01)6395689 (01)6395674 (01)6395676 Dáil Éireann The Government of Ireland Kildare Street Dublin Ireland would first and foremost, establish the exact entity or entities my complaint is against. This MUST now happen. Insufficient attention was given to the fact that the Councils lied in this regard, claiming their company was independent, and therefore beyond the remit of this Office.
In the absense of such concrete information, it is difficult
to impossible for me to determine what information is
"relevant". I need to know exactly, who future "Freedom of
Information" requests should be directed to, and/or who any
legal action should be taken against. I also need to know
what the legal position is, for example, when someone defames on
Council time, or gets paid legal advice at the taxpayers expense.
Is this misconduct the act of maverick individuals acting in isolation, or
is it systemic, and if so, systemic to which entity?
Regarding the Examination, I did the work, I provided the questions, I wrote a formal complaint to Mr. Francis Sheridan. He should have been made to answer each and every one of those specific questions, and not given the scope to fudge. I should have been informed of what questions had been asked, and his answers to each in response, and asked for my thoughts subsequently. This case is now at Appeal stage and I have had NOT ONE answer.
The "Complaint Examination Process" also led me to believe that I could contact my case worker at any time, yet in the days leading up to the decision, I was told that no extra information would be considered. I felt totally frustrated because I had no indication of the report's content, or what I needed to rebut. I had noted from earlier documents received under FOI, that the Councils were prepared to dig into any depth of history to spin, distort and intimidate.
On 10 March 2014, I received correspondence from Derek Charles (Ref: FOI/2014/0114) to the effect that this same report was excempt from FOI. Assuming this to be the case, I believe I should have been provided with what I'm accused of in any case for the reasons already outlined. Considering that what I've already submitted has been largely disregarded, I am reluctant to invest further time in adding context to earlier submissions until I am satisfied that I'm finally being afforded due attention.
My primary grounds for this Appeal are
- (2:) failure to appreciate the position in which I found myself, when being asked to legitimise the arbitration of the very fabricators
- (3:) failure to request CCTV footage
- (4:) failure to adequately consider the possibility that the Council's position is not simply incorrect, but deliberately contrived which meant that
- (5:) the complaint was not properly understood.
As I understand the function of the Office of the Ombudsman, it is a mechanism for ordinary citizens such as me, without legal training, who are mistreated by publicly funded bodies, to seek redress. To date, as a consumer of this service, I struggle to understand how the simplest and most clear abuse of public office can go the entire distance to Appeal without even one answer provided to me, and all my time and energy seems to be spent on preventing my case from being closed and disgarded. A commitment to an oral hearing would greatly help in this regard. My experience to date has been that this Office does not provide the functionality it purports to provide, but I attribute this to oversight, and hope it can now be addressed.
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