FOI 3-23: St Patrick's Day celebrations in the US

Information Standards Freedom of Information Response

Our Ref: FOI 3-23

27 March 2023

Freedom of Information Act 2000 (“FOIA”)

I am writing to confirm that the Northern Ireland Assembly Commission (Assembly Commission) has processed your request dated 15 March 2023 in line with the Freedom of Information Act 2000. In your request, you asked:

“1. How many NI Assembly Members are going to the United States to celebrate St Patricks Day in 2023?

No NI Assembly Members travelled to the United States of America (USA) to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day on official Assembly business.

2. Why do they go as St Patrick is the Patron Saint of Ireland, not the USA?

No NI Assembly Members travelled to the United States of America (USA) to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day on official Assembly business. 

3. Who pays for these visits?”

No NI Assembly Members travelled to the United States of America (USA) to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day on official Assembly business.

You have the right to request a formal review by the Assembly Commission and if you wish to do so, please write to me at the above address. If after such an internal review you are still unhappy with the response, you may appeal to the Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF which will undertake an independent review.

The Assembly Commission may publish details of your FOI request and its official response within the organisational disclosure log. The request will be completely anonymised and you will not be identified in any way. This is to meet the requirements as laid out by in the agreed publication scheme with the Information Commissioners’ Office.

Yours sincerely

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