Case: OCE-129327-G3R3L5

Appellant submitted a request to Coillte seeking access to: “All environmental records relating to the ongoing HydroSED project to include, but not restricted to:

1. Methodology
2. Interim Reports
3. Preliminary findings
4. Correspondence
5. GIS data (in GIS format)

“18. The date for Coillte’s response to the Investigator’s request for submissions was 12 September 2024 and Coillte was subsequently granted a number of extensions. Although Coillte sent a few emails to this Office, indicating that submissions and a revised schedule of records would be provided, no submissions have been received to date and Coillte did not respond to the Investigator’s latest request for an update on 15 November 2024.”

AIE Request 20240176 (remitted) Coillte

AIE Request 20240153

“Information related to the construction, reopening, upgrade or maintenance of forest roads, recreation trails or other temporary/permanent roads/trails and their related drainage operations, and surfacing, to and adjacent to sea trout spawning pools on the Vartry River in Devils Glen, Wicklow to include, but not restricted to;

1. Meetings – internal and external
2. Environmental Risk Assessment
3. Ecological Surveys
4. Screening under Article 6(3) of the Habitats Directive (including discussions in relation to
   the need for an Appropriate Assessment)
5. Assessment under Article 6(3) of the Habitats Directive
6. (i) Operational Records, including (ii) environmental monitoring
7. Date of works
8. Relevant Correspondence, internal and external – all media
9. Data collected on the Field Data Collector App.
10. Complaints and meetings to address the same
    Please consider the period 2022 to date.