AIE Requests
AIE Refusal: bTB wildlife tender and related records
AAIE.25.004
Notes
The contractor (FRS) does not provide reports to DAFM. DAFM manages the reporting system for the wildlife programme, as the contractor’s staff are overseen by DAFM.
AIE Refusal: Bovine TB Stakeholder Forum
AIE Request: Bovine TB Eradication Programme: wildlife control programme
AIE Refusal; DAFM, bTB stakeholder forum
AIE Request [AIE.25.020]
Send to IR 4.3.2025
AIE Request – Bovine TB Stakeholder Forum
Under the AIE to request:
1) Minutes of any Meeting of the Bovine TB Stakeholder Forum in 2024 since Meeting 20 (22 May 2024), together with copies of any presentations circulated at these meetings, and any data/reports provided to farming organisations after the meetings
2) Bovine TB Stakeholder Forum – Meeting 20, Date: 22 May 2024
a) DAFM Presentation circulated (Disease Trends Update)
b) Research Update presentation circulated
c) Simon More, UCD critique of the TB eradication programme presentation circulated
d) DAFM data provided to farming organisation in response to request for statistics in respect of animals where PCR test carried out
e) DAFM data provided to farming organisation request analysis of C10 herds who are now in a
breakdow
3) Bovine TB Stakeholder Forum – Meeting 19, Date: 27 February 2024
a) Minister’s response to the letter from the IWG Chairman on the Wildlife Programme
b) Summary document of the work of the TB Forum and IWG to date
c) Department provided an update on wildlife figures in terms of vaccination, culling and staffing
d) DAFM presentation – Disease Trends Update The Department presented TB Disease Trends 2022-2024 which examined the increase in rolling totals of TB reactors and restricted herds
e) ESRI behavioural report findings on Bovine TB
f) Simon More presented preliminary results on a study “Is badger vaccination, in combination with existing cattle-based controls sufficient to eradicate bTB from Ireland?”
4) Minutes of any Meeting of the Finance Working Group – since Meeting 16, 24th February 2023 together with copies of any presentations circulated at these meetings, and any data/reports provided to farming organisations after the meetings
5) Minutes of the Bovine TB Stakeholder Forum’s Implementation Working Group (IWG) – since Meeting 39, 03 September 2024, together with copies of any presentations circulated at these meetings, and any data/reports provided to farming organisations after the meetings
a) DAFM update on disease situation by county
b) DAFM data analysis on movement of animals between herds
6) Bovine TB Stakeholder Forum’s Implementation Working Group (IWG) – Meeting 38, 02 July 2024
a) DAFM records on minority herds who do not carry out TB tests and are trade restricted (cannot sell on the open market). It is unclear from minutes if this data was made available to farming organisations and/or IWG members, so please consider this request for the records regardless of whether provided or not, in summary format as aggregated by DAFM for reporting purposes
For context on above please see
https://www.gov.ie/en/collection/d3baf-tb-forum
https://www.gov.ie/en/collection/217aa-finance-working-group
Whether DAFM was justified in refusing access to monitoring information (and dates of works) that may be in the possession of licensees under article 7(5) of the AIE Regs on the basis that any relevant information is not held for the Department for the purposes of the AIE Regs
Case: OCE-154871-W6C0R7; OCE-155027-V7Q1W7; OCE-155324-C0N9K0; OCE-156584-L0Z7K4
AIE Request: Coillte Management Plans for Co Leitrim BioClass sites
AIE: Please provide, by email, a copy of all current Management Plans in relation to Coillte controlled lands (held both freehold or leasehold by Coillte) located in County Leitrim with a Bio Class rating applied by Coillte
The ratings of BioClass areas on Coillte lands in Leitrim, are available to view at the following link:
https://coillte.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=7b05ec6a44a14bd8b523ea1fcb7
8b4e9
All biodiversity areas have a BioClass rating, and this can be seen on the public map viewer. For your reference, please see screenshot below of Glencar in Co Leitrim.
Simply click on the biodiversity area in question and the BioClass rating is listed with the attributes on the pop up, as per below example.
Note: Of the 111 mapped BioClass Plots in LM only five have a Management Plan
EPA Local Authority Illegal Waste Sites
Commissioner’s Decision OCE- 125751-P6M5Y9 /Our Ref: OEE AIE 2022 16
I refer to the decision of the Commissioner for Environmental Information (Ref: OCE- 125751-P6M5Y9) dated 13th December 2024 and the direction by the Commissioner in his Decision to the EPA to release the information sought.
In accordance with Article 13(1) of the AIE Regulations, a party to an appeal under article 12 or any other person affected by the decision of the Commissioner may appeal to the High Court on a point of law from the decision.
Having considered the Commissioner’s direction, the EPA has decided not to appeal to the High Court. The EPA will carry out the Commissioner’s direction dated 13th December 2024 and release the information sought subject to the following caveat which should be included in any reproduced copies of the information released:
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) cannot guarantee the accuracy of the details in this dataset. The data was provided to the EPA by local authorities, this data has not been validated by the EPA and cannot be relied upon as evidence of deposition. The EPA does not accept any responsibility for loss or damage occasioned, or claimed to have been occasioned, in part or in full, as a consequence of any person acting, or refraining from acting, as a result of a matter contained in this data. This dataset/shapefile should not be released or reproduced in part.
I enclose with this notification, the information sought.
Yours sincerely
Ana Bolger
AIE Officer
Corporate Governance
Office of Communications and Corporate Services
Excel and mapping files
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1hl7xkWWZwxZ9qOwtSMKWnEbJXu4XfLGw?usp=sharing
AIE Request: Forestry Opportunities Map: Component Map Layers of the Opportunities Map
Forestry Opportunities Map “The right trees in the right places for the right reasons”
Dec 2024
Published by: Forestry Division, Department of Agriculture, Food & the Marine. Johnstown Castle
Estate
The shp files are listed in the report as follows
Component Map Layers of the Opportunities Map include
- NPWS Designated Sites: Special Areas of Conservation (SACs), National Heritage Areas (NHAs),
Proposed NHAs, Special Protection Areas (SPAs), and National Parks. - Water Bodies: Streams, lakes, and reservoirs (sourced from the EPA landcover map).
- Existing landcover including urban areas and waterbodies: From the EPA landcover map.
- High Nature Value Farmland: Identified by Teagasc.
- Source Protection Areas and Drinking Water Abstraction Points: Mapped by the Geological Survey
Ireland (GSI). - High-Status Objective Waterbodies: Data from the EPA.
- Freshwater Pearl Mussel Catchments: Data provided by the NPWS
- Potentially Fisheries-Sensitive Areas: Compiled in consultation with the Inland Fisheries (see
Forestry Scheme Manual, July 2024). - Potentially Acid-Sensitive Areas (see Forestry Scheme Manual, July 2024).
- Areas with bird species of high conservation importance: Spatial data compiled from the NPWS and
BirdWatch Ireland. - National Monuments / Architectural Heritage: Data from the National Monument Service.
- Soils data: Provided by Teagasc
- Forest Productivity Map: Developed by Teagasc.
- Existing Forest Cover: Information from DAFM and Coillte
Data sources:
High Nature Value Farmland Teagasc – https://t-stor.teagasc.ie/handle/11019/1659
Coillte Subcompartment Database – Contact Coillte Directly (enquiries to
sharon.fitzpatrick@coillte.ie)
NPWS Designated Sites: Special Areas of Conservation (SACs), National Heritage Areas (NHAs),
Proposed NHAs, Special Protection Areas (SPAs), and National Parks – See https://data.gov.ie/ and
or https://www.npws.ie/maps-and-data
National Landcover Map -https://www.epa.ie/our-services/monitoring–assessment/assessment/mapping/national-land-cover-map/ and https://tailte.ie/en
Source Protection Areas and Drinking Water Abstraction Points see https://www.gsi.ie and or
https://data.gov.ie/
EPA High-Status Objective Waterbodies – see https://gis.epa.ie/GetData/Download
Freshwater Pearl Mussel Catchments: – See https://data.gov.ie/ and or https://www.npws.ie/maps-
and-data
National Monuments / Architectural Heritage: – See https://data.gov.ie/ or
https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d2
96436d8f60f8
Soils data: – ISIS Map
Private Forests Database: – https://opendata.agriculture.gov.ie/dataset/dafm-private-forest-estate-
2023