Press releases

Annual Review 2022: Commissioner criticises public authorities’ compliance with Access to Information laws

• 24 May 2023

Annual report: Appeals to Commissioner treble in 2021

• 22 June 2022

Annual Report: FOI requests fall during pandemic but review applications to Information Commissioner remain high

• 1 July 2021

FOI review applications to Information Commissioner hits 10-year high

• 17 June 2020

Nearly 37,000 Freedom of Information requests made to public bodies in 2018

• 10 July 2019

Speech of Mr. Peter Tyndall, Commissioner for Environmental Information, delivered at “the Aarhus Convention – 20 years on” conference

• 23 November 2018

Conference organised by the Irish Centre for European Law, in Dublin. Topic: "The work of the Office of the Commissioner for Environmental Information"

Information Commissioner says more resources needed for public bodies to deal with FOI requests

• 10 May 2018

Speaking [ today 10 May ] at the launch of his annual report for 2017, Information Commissioner Peter Tyndall has called for more resources to be allocated to public bodies to deal with the increased number of Freedom of Information requests. Almost 34,000 requests were made to public bodies in 2017 – a 67% increase since the removal of fees for FOI requests in 2014, and 11% more requests than in 2016.

Information Commissioner reports record number of FOI requests made to public bodies

• 7 June 2017

30,417 requests under the Freedom of Information Act were made to public bodies in 2016. This was the highest number of FOI requests ever recorded. The number of applications made to the Information Commissioner to review FOI decisions rose by 32% in the same year.