Office of the Commissioner for Enviromental InformationOffice of the Commissioner for Enviromental InformationOffice of the Commissioner for Enviromental Information
  • Gaeilge
  • Switch to Gaeilge
  • Making an Appeal
    • Who can appeal
    • How to appeal
    • Make an appeal
  • Decisions
  • Law
    • Legislation
    • Court judgments
    • Environmental information
  • Resources
  • Publications
    • Annual reports
    • Press releases
    • Submissions
  • About
    • Who we are
    • What we do
    • How we do it
    • FOI publication scheme
    • Accessible services
  • Contact

Ensuring Access to Environmental Information

Make an appeal
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.

  • What we do
  • How to Appeal
  • How we review Decisions
  • Legislation
  • Resources
  • FOI Publication Scheme

Recent Decisions

Mr X and Environmental Protection Agency The Commissioner annulled the EPA's decision. He directed the EPA to release records 41 and 42. He also directed the EPA to undertake a fresh decision making process in respect of records 1-26, 28-40, and 43-63 and in respect of the appellant's request for additional relevant environmental information. Read more
Mr & Mrs Z and Coillte Teoranta (Coillte) The Commissioner found that Coillte held additional documents within the scope of the appellant's request and directed their release. He upheld Coillte's reliance on article 9(1)(b) as providing grounds for refusal of information within the scope of the appellant's request which was subject to legal advice privilege. Read more
Mr X and Wicklow County Council The Commissioner (i) found that a number of documents provided to his Office by the Council were outside the scope of the request, (ii) found that article 9(1)(b) provided grounds for disclosure of a limited number of documents within scope, and (iii) directed release of the remaining documents to the appellant. Read more
The Office of the Commissioner for               Environmental Information
The Office of the Commissioner for Environmental Information
6 Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin 2, D02 W773.

Opening Hours: 9.15 to 5.00 Monday to Friday

  • Make an FOI request to OCEI
  • Make an AIE request to OCEI
  • Re-use of OCEI Information
  • Regulation of Lobbying Act 2015
  • Irish Language Scheme
  • gov.ie
  • Strategy & governance
  • Customer Service
  • Disclaimer
  • Privacy & cookies
  • Contact