Re-Use of Public Sector Information

The Office of the Chief State Solicitor complies with the Regulations on the Re-use of Public Sector Information SI 279/2005 and we encourage the re-use of the information that we produce. Information and documents obtained from this website may be reproduced and/or re-used subject to the latest PSI licence available at data.gov.ie.

The information on our website is the copyright of the Office of the Chief State Solicitor except where otherwise indicated. You may re-use the information on our website free of charge.

Re-use includes copying, issuing copies to the public, publishing, broadcasting and translating into other languages. It also covers non-commercial research and study. Re-use is subject to the conditions below.

You must:

• acknowledge the source and our copyright in cases where you supply the information to others
• reproduce the information accurately
• not use the information in a misleading way
• not use the information for the principal purpose of advertising or promoting a particular product or service
• not use the information for or in support of illegal, immoral, fraudulent or dishonest purposes

The Office of the Chief State Solicitor is not liable for any loss or liability associated with the re-use of information and does not certify that the information is up-to-date or error free. The Office of the Chief State Solicitor does not authorise any user to have exclusive rights to the re-use of its information.

Under the PSI Regulations, an individual or a legal entity may make a request in a legible form to a public sector body to release documents for re-use.

• Every request must clearly indicate that it is being made for the purpose of the re-use of public sector information
• Every request made in a language other than Irish or English must be accompanied by a translation of the request into Irish or English

The Regulations provide that a public sector body shall, on receipt of a request in respect of a document held by it to which the PSI Regulations apply, allow the re-use of the document for commercial or non-commercial purposes in accordance with the conditions and time limits provided for by the Regulations.

Requests to this Office to release documents for re-use under the PSI Regulations should be made in writing by post or email to:

The PSI Regulations provide that a public sector body shall generally respond to a PSI request within 20 working days from receipt of the request.

Where, due to the extent or complexity of the request, processing will take longer than 20 working days from receipt of the request, the public sector body concerned shall advise the requester accordingly within three weeks after the initial request was received. In such circumstances the public sector body should respond in full to the request within 40 working days from receipt of the request.

The PSI Regulations provide a statutory appeals mechanism to the Office of the Information Commissioner whereby a requester may appeal against:

• A decision of a public body to refuse to allow re-use of a document
• A decision of a public body to refuse to grant an exclusive right to re-use a document
• The imposition of a fee for re-use of a document
• The amount of a fee imposed
• Any conditions to re-use imposed by a public body

Any appeal must be sent to the Information Commissioner in a legible form within four weeks after the notification of this Office’s decision to the requester. The Information Commissioner may grant an extension to the appeal period where he / she is of the opinion that there are reasonable grounds to allow such an extension. The Information Commissioner shall, having heard an appeal, decide whether to affirm, vary or annul the decision of the public body.

A decision of the Information Commissioner may be appealed on a point of law to the High Court.