Ireland
Freedom of Information Act 2014
No. 30 of 2014
Ireland's access law. Free to file for non-personal records since 2014; the €30 internal-review fee is where costs start.
The clock
20 business days
Decision within 4 weeks of receipt, extendable by up to 4 more for volume.
Air Corps sighting material is sparse; the Military Archives hold the older files.
Reading the statute itself
The text of this one is not reproduced here: foreign legislation is published under its own country’s copyright rules, so it is linked instead. Everything on this page — the deadline, the appeal path, the fee standard — is Aletheca’s summary of that text, and the official source is one click away.
If they refuse
- Appeal deadline
- 28 days — days from the decision to seek internal review (€30 fee)
- Appeal route
- 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.
Fees and expedition
Fee-waiver standard
No fee to request non-personal records; search-and-retrieval charges apply above a threshold and are capped.
Aletheca argues this on every request it files here. A service that publishes every page it receives, free, to a public archive has an unusually strong showing — considerably stronger than a private requester’s.
Exemptions it allows
- s.28 Government meetings
- s.32 Law enforcement and public safety
- s.33 Security, defence and international relations
- s.37 Personal information