Ensuring Access to Environmental Information

Make an appeal
Search decisions

The role of the Commissioner for Environmental Information is to decide on appeals by members of the public who are not satisfied with the outcome of their requests to public authorities for environmental information.

Recent Decisions

Conor Ryan & Offaly County Council (OCC) The Commissioner found that while article 9(1)(c) applied to the information, the public interest in disclosure outweighed the interests served by refusal. Accordingly, he varied OCC’s decision and required it to make the withheld environmental information available to the appellant. Read more
Right to Know CLG & Raheenleagh Power Designated Activity Company (Raheenleagh Power) The Commissioner found that Raheenleagh Power does not meet the legal definition of public authority in article 3(1) of the AIE Regulations and, therefore, is not a public authority Read more
Mr X and The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine In accordance with article 12(5) of the AIE Regulations, the Commissioner found that the Department was justified in refusing access to the information sought under article 8(a)(i) and affirmed its decision accordingly. Read more