Ensuring Access to Environmental Information

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

Right to Know CLG and National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) The Commissioner found that NAMA was justified in refusing access to the information sought under article 8(a)(iv) of the AIE Regulations and affirmed its decision accordingly. Read more

Mr. J and EirGrid PLC (EirGrid) The Commissioner accepted EirGrid's assurance that it did not hold certain information at the relevant time. He found that EirGrid's refusal to provide further information was justified in relation to all parts of the request except one. He found that EirGrid had not properly addressed one part because it had not properly had regard to the appellant's clarification of the scope of that part. Accordingly, he varied EirGrid's decision by annulling its decision on that part while affirming its decision on the other parts. He expressed his expectation that EirGrid will make a fresh decision on the annulled part in accordance with the AIE Regulations, if the appellant so wishes. Read more

Padraig O'Reilly and EirGrid PLC (EirGrid) The Commissioner found that EirGrid did not make any decision on much of the information captured by part 1 of the request. Given the close relationship between the information captured by parts 1 and 2, the Commissioner considered that both of those parts must be considered together. Accordingly, he annulled EirGrids decision on those parts of the request and required EirGrid to make a fresh decision in accordance with the Regulations. Read more