1. Please provide, by email, information on the dates of all meetings (including both face-to-face and virtual meetings) held in September 2024 between EPA and Coillte. Information to include, inter alia, the dates of all:
a) Any routine meetings held between EPA with Coillte
b) Any meetings attended by the Minister of State (DAFM) with Coillte and the EPA
2. Please provide, by email, a copy of the agendas and minutes (both handwritten and otherwise) for all September 2024 meetings covered by this AIE request.
3. Please provide by email, all information received by EPA from Coillte in relation to all September2024 meetings covered by this AIE request, whether received by EPA prior to the scheduled meeting with Coillte or received by EPA during the scheduled meeting with Coillte, or received by EPA after the scheduled meeting.
4. Please provide by email, all information received by Coillte from EPA in relation to all September 2024 meetings covered by this AIE request, whether received by Coillte prior to the scheduled meeting with EPA or received by Coilte during the scheduled meeting with EPA or received by Coillte after the scheduled meeting.
OCEI instructed EPA to release the attached excel report (note: 9 individual sheets within the spreadsheet along the bottom of the excel report) which contains all RMCEI data returns from all local authorities for 2022
The EPA provided the OCEI with the attached excel file in relation to this case. The EPA also informed the OCEI that the final phase of the LEAP Online system was completed and that all formal compliance and enforcement correspondence relating to licensed facilities was uploaded to the new online system.
EPA further informed the OCEI that the records relevant to this case are available to view via the LEAP Online (epa.ie) (Licence and Enforcement Access Portal) system.
Note: what is an EPA CI ?
A Compliance Investigation (CI) is opened by the EPA when further information and/or action is required in relation to a compliance issue at a licensed site. Under the CI, the EPA can direct the licensee to provide additional information about the issue and to take specified corrective and preventative actions to restore compliance with the licence.
A licenced site with an open CI is at risk of being included on EPA list of National Priority Sites.
Under the AIE Regs to request records for the following successful EPA prosecutions
For the purposes of this AIE please consider records related to the court cases listed and relevant site inspections within EDEN, LEMA, LEAP and any other EPA enforcement/licencing databases
Please consider the date range 2022 to 2024
Please disregard any records publicly disclosed via LEAP Online
Unlicensed piggery operating contrary to the requirements of section 82(2) of the EPA Act 1992
OEE AIE 2024 01
Under AIE to request enforcement/licencing records for a pig farm (redacted) mentioned in the court diary, Brandon District Ct, for 4th Jan 2024
For the purposes of this AIE please consider records related to the court case and relevant site inspections within EDEN, LEMA, LEAP and any other EPA enforcement/licencing databases
