It is not every day that State officials receive information requests seeking documents on forestry policy from Willy Wonka, Mel Gibson, and Russell Crowe. But it happened to Coillte, the semi-state forestry company, and its parent, the Department of Agriculture, in 2022 as they were inundated by access to information on the environment (AIE) requests. AIEs are similar to freedom of information requests and allow members of the public to make requests for documents held by public bodies on a range of nature and climate issues.  All in all, they received over 30,000 AIE requests in 2022 from Wonka, Gibson,…

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