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Re-use of Public Sector Information

Statutory Instrument 279/2005 implementing EU Directive 2003/98/EC

The Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government complies with the Regulations on the Re-use of Public Sector Information (http://www.psi.gov.ie/) and we encourage the re-use of the information that we produce.

All of the information featured on our website is the copyright of The Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government unless otherwise indicated. You may re-use the information on this website free of charge in any format.

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 following conditions. 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 Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government 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 Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government does not authorise any user to have exclusive rights to re-use of its information.

The Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government maintains the following information on its website

  • Elections
  • Environment
  • Fire & Emergency Planning
  • Heritage Service
  • Housing
  • Local Government
  • Motor Tax
  • Met Éireann
  • National Spatial Policy
  • Non-national Roads
  • Nuclear safety
  • Planning/development
  • Public/Private partnership
  • Water services

Other information on services and schemes is available from the Department’s FOI Section 15 and 16 manuals available from foi@environ.ie 

Links to other Departmental sites also covered by this policy
ENFO http://www.enfo.ie/ 
GIS data- Nature conservation and built heritage http://www.heritagedata.ie/and http://www.npws.ie/ 
Met Éireann http://www.met.ie/ 
Motor Tax Online http://www.motortax.ie/
National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (NIAH) http://www.buildingsofireland.ie/
National Spatial Strategy http://irishspatialstrategy.ie
Race Against Waste http://www.raceagainstwaste.com/
Tidy Towns http://www.tidytowns.ie/  

 For further information on the re-use of information maintained by bodies under the aegis of the Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government please see the links page on this website.

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