{
  "slug": "ie-defence",
  "register": {
    "slug": "ie-defence",
    "name": "Department of Defence (Ireland)",
    "local_name": "An Roinn Cosanta",
    "abbr": null,
    "jurisdiction": "foreign",
    "state": null,
    "state_name": null,
    "country": "Ireland",
    "country_code": "IE",
    "category": "defense",
    "agency_type": "ministry",
    "parent": null,
    "parent_name": null,
    "url": "https://aletheca.com/agencies/ie-defence",
    "website": "https://www.gov.ie/en/organisation/department-of-defence/",
    "reading_room": null,
    "subject_to_foia": true,
    "law": {
      "id": "ie-foi-2014",
      "citation": "No. 30 of 2014",
      "statutory_days": 20,
      "business_days": true,
      "appeal_deadline_days": 28
    },
    "intake": [
      {
        "channel": "email",
        "detail": "foi@defence.ie",
        "label": "FOI Unit",
        "verified": false,
        "verification": "unverified",
        "verification_source": null,
        "last_checked": null,
        "automatable": false,
        "preferred": false,
        "reliability": null,
        "instructions": null
      },
      {
        "channel": "mail",
        "detail": "FOI Unit, Department of Defence, Station Road, Newbridge, Co. Kildare, W12 AD93",
        "label": "Postal mail",
        "verified": false,
        "verification": "unverified",
        "verification_source": null,
        "last_checked": null,
        "automatable": false,
        "preferred": false,
        "reliability": null,
        "instructions": null
      }
    ],
    "submission_readiness": null,
    "holdings": [
      "Air Corps sighting reports and correspondence",
      "Departmental files on unidentified aircraft reports (older files at the Military Archives)"
    ],
    "tips": [
      "No fee to file; the €30 internal-review fee is where costs start.",
      "The Military Archives at Cathal Brugha Barracks hold the historic files and answer reference questions without FOI."
    ],
    "tracking": "FOI reference issued by the FOI Unit.",
    "confidence": "medium",
    "source": "Hand-compiled international layer. Bodies and statutes are real; contact routes are inferred unless marked verified, and none has yet been proven by a delivered letter."
  },
  "scorecard": null,
  "components": [],
  "requests": []
}