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

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