Creating a policy on gov.ie

A policy is a guide to what the government is considering in a particular area. It should refer to key publications and strategy documents while highlighting a cohesive narrative to the reader. Policy content pages should only include information that is not going to change in the short-term.

• if a policy is related to a service then a link to that service should be inserted as early as possible so as to direct the user to the relevant service as quickly as possible
• policy content should not refer to the division that created it. That content should be in Organisation Information
• policies don't have to give every single detail of what the government is doing in a particular area - just the topline is fine. Policy information or publication pages can go into more detail
• if a policy runs to more than 5 paragraphs (20 lines) then it goes to a a policy information page - a 'read more about X' - which is linked to the overarching policy
• all documents, publications, speeches and news stories that form part of the policy should be tagged with the policy in the content management system (CMS)