Ensuring Access to Environmental Information

Search decisions

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

Ms Y and Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine The Commissioner found that the Department had not established that reasonable and appropriate searches had been conducted to identify and retrieve environmental information within the scope of the appellant's request and remitted the matter to the Department for further consideration. Read more

Ms B and Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine The Commissioner found that the Department had not complied with the requirements of the AIE Regulations and remitted the matter to the Department directing it to undertake a fresh decision-making process. Read more

Mr X and Coillte The Commissioner annulled Coillte's decision in respect of record 4. He directed the release of the record, subject to the redaction of information that falls outside the scope of this review. Read more