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  "id": "ie-foi-2014",
  "name": "Freedom of Information Act 2014",
  "short_name": "FOI Act 2014",
  "citation": "No. 30 of 2014",
  "jurisdiction": "foreign",
  "state": null,
  "state_name": null,
  "country": "Ireland",
  "country_code": "IE",
  "url": "https://aletheca.com/laws/ie-foi-2014",
  "description": "Ireland's access law. Free to file for non-personal records since 2014; the €30 internal-review fee is where costs start.",
  "statutory_days": 20,
  "business_days": true,
  "statutory_text": "Decision within 4 weeks of receipt, extendable by up to 4 more for volume.",
  "appeal_deadline_days": 28,
  "appeal_basis": "days from the decision to seek internal review (€30 fee)",
  "appeal_process": "Internal review (€30) within four weeks, then the Office of the Information Commissioner (€50), then the High Court on a point of law.",
  "litigation": "High Court, on a point of law only.",
  "fee_waiver_standard": "No fee to request non-personal records; search-and-retrieval charges apply above a threshold and are capped.",
  "expedited_criteria": [],
  "exemptions": [
    "s.28 Government meetings",
    "s.32 Law enforcement and public safety",
    "s.33 Security, defence and international relations",
    "s.37 Personal information"
  ],
  "portal": null,
  "turnaround_notes": "Air Corps sighting material is sparse; the Military Archives hold the older files.",
  "quirks": null,
  "sources": [
    {
      "label": "Irish Statute Book — Freedom of Information Act 2014",
      "url": "https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2014/act/30/enacted/en/html",
      "status": "blocked",
      "checked_at": "2026-08-31"
    }
  ],
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  "text_note": null,
  "agencies": [
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      "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."
    }
  ]
}