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

Mr A and Dublin Airport Authority Public Limited Company (daa) In affirming daa's decision, the Commissioner found that it had, at this point in time, taken adequate steps to search for and provide the appellant with access to the environmental information falling within the scope of parts A and C of the request that is held by or for daa. He went on to find that article 7(5) of the AIE Regulations applied and that no further environmental information falling within the scope of parts A and C the request is held by or for the daa at this time. Read more

Philip Lee Solicitors and the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage The Commissioner found that the Department was justified in not providing access to certain information because it did not hold the information. He found that refusal to provide access to certain other information was not justified on the ground of articles 8(a)(iv) or 9(1)(c) and he required the Department to release it Read more

Mr. Q and Kilkenny County Council The Commissioner found that the Council's refusal of access to the correspondence regarding the RSA reports for the KCAS under article 8(a)(iv) of the AIE Regulations was not justified. Accordingly, he required the Council to disclose the correspondence to the appellant Read more