Ensuring Access to Environmental Information

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The role of the Commissioner for Environmental Information is to carry out independent reviews of decisions made by public authorities on requests for environmental information.

Recent Decisions

Right to Know CLG and Data Protection Commissioner The Commissioner found that the request was not dealt with in accordance with articles 3(2) and 4(5) of the AIE Directive and articles 7(2) and 11(3) of the AIE Regulations and that this failure was not justified Read more

Mr. Ken Foxe, Right to Know CLG and Coillte Teoranta (Coillte) The Commissioner found that the information was "environmental information" and remitted the matter to Coillte for further consideration Read more

Ms. A and Laois and Offaly Education and Training Board (LOETB) The Commissioner found that the refusal of access to a copy of School B's most-up-to date risk assessment was justified on the basis that article 7(5) of the AIE Regulations applied to it. He also found that refusal of access to a copy of School B's insurance policy was justified on the basis that it was not environmental information within the meaning of article 3(1)(b) or 3(1)(f) of the AIE Regulations Read more