Re: Data Request No 2025_0009_01

Dear Right to Know,

I refer to your request for data held by the Office of Public Works (OPW). Your request sought the data listed in the attached spreadsheet.

I have considered your request for data and in line with the OPW’s current Data Policy, the following datasets may be provided under the Creative Commons BY 4.0 licence. If you confirm that you want us to send on these datasets, we will make suitable arrangements for release, noting the approximate file sizes below.

In line with the OPW’s current Data Policy, I am unable to make the data in the table below, Data Request Refusal, Refusal Reasons, Licence and Alternative Data Access, available under the Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication (CC0) or the Creative Commons BY 4.0 licence. The specific reason for the refusal of individual datasets are listed within the table below.

Please note that the OPW has carried out a review of the requested datasets and a range of additional datasets are now available under varying levels of open licences on Ireland’s Open Data Portal (https://data.gov.ie/. In some instances, due to the complexity and size of the data structures, these datasets may not be available for direct download at present.

To appeal a refusal, in the first instance, please write to flood_data@opw.ie, clearly outlining the case reference number and the grounds of the appeal. The appeal will be forwarded to the relevant section(s) within the OPW for a supplementary review. A decision to refuse the requested data may also be appealed to the Office of the Information Commissioner, https://www.oic.ie/.

Please note that separate procedures apply for requests made under other legislation, including Freedom of Information (FOI) and Access to Information on the Environment (AIE) and separate responses will issue where applicable.

Yours sincerely,

The FRM Data Management Team

Data Request Refusal, Refusal Reasons, Licence and Alternative Data Access

* This indicates data that will be made directly accessible on data.gov.ie under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 licence, once a suitable technical solution has been implemented to disseminate the data structure. At present, a sub-set of the data is made available on request under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 licence.