"a response will issue to you in due course." is a letter that we did not want to get from them as it ends with the sentence.
If we had not answered this letter, it would have meant that we accepted their last sentence and therefore we accepted the delay.
This is a legal tactic and a delaying tactic, that we did not fall for, but they are the people with all the legal advice that they need to wrong foot us, if they wish. We believe that they are negotiating with us in bad faith and therefore we do not expect a successful outcome as a result of our complaint.
Our reply to them said:
"I wish to be informed of the reasons for any delay in the processing of my complaint and any actions taken by the respondent that contribute to the delay."
All we can do is highlight the bad practice here and we will persist in trying to see our complaints through to the end, meaning that we may have to go to Brussels some time in the future, to bang on their door, to get it resolved.
Following on from our last issue, we got a letter from DCC regarding our complaint of alleged unauthorised planning on the walk to Fr. Hegarty’s Rock.
No elected representative has come forward to assist in any way towards the resolution of our complaints regarding the destruction of the Special Area of Conservation (SAC) in Buncrana.
We still say "The system was made to fail"