Full coverage: Coillte

Coillte recently refused to deal with a wave of environmental requests sent to it using movie character pseudonyms. The case has gone to the CJEU which will soon gives its opinion if requesters, including journalists, can access environmental information anonymously.

The information commissioner recently ruled that ESB and Coillte must reexamine decisions where they refused to release data on legal fees paid out to fight requests for environmental documents they hold.

Bord na Mona, ESB and Coillte have faced criticism for regularly fighting against requests to release environmental information they hold. New decisions from Ireland’s information commissioner may reveal their spend on legal fees and shines a light on a broken system.

A forestry standards auditor claims he was axed from the role by the NSAI standards body at the behest of the “client” Coillte, the High Court hears. The claims are vigorously denied.

Coillte’s decision to raise investor funds through the asset management firm Gresham House has re-lit a passionate debate on forestry. We interview the central people involved at the state-owned company and its two PPP private partners.