An Bord Pleanála
This is a useful website if you are involved in the submission of an objection to a development or an appeal from a local authority to An Bord Pleanála. Details of cases and latest stage reached, planning appeal information, publications.
Companies Registration Office
Contains guidelines on the registration of a business name and how to lodge forms online. It also allows simple company searches, free of charge.
Competition Authority
The Competition Authority website has links to the Competition Acts 2002 and 2006. Contains useful information on the procedure involved in mergers and acquisitions. It contains the Competition Authority decisions and the Authority’s reports on specific sectors of the Irish economy, including the professions.
Courts Service
Publishes the daily Legal Diary for the Superior Courts and the Circuit Court and has an archive of the issues published during the current court term and the immediately preceding court term. The website contains all the updated rules and fees relevant to the Superior Courts, Circuit Court and District Court. It also has a number of useful forms including summonses for noise pollution under environmental legislation, Circuit Court forms, probate forms, High Court civil forms and useful forms for a Wards of Court application. The ‘Judgments’ database contains the full text written judgments of the Supreme Court since 2001 and of the High Court and Court of Criminal Appeal since 2004.
Employment Appeals Tribunal
Claims forms for all claims that can be dealt with by the Employment Appeals Tribunal are available to download and also a guide to making an application and links to the relevant employment legislation.
Equality Authority
Useful equality related articles, information booklets, research publications and codes of practice together with the Authority’s Annual Reports. Also contains useful summaries of equality legislation and various leave entitlements.
Equality Tribunal
The Equality Tribunal website has a number of guides to employment equality including complaint forms. It also has a useful database with full text decisions and summaries of decisions over the past ten years, which can be a useful guide to the outcome of cases that may be pending before the Equality Tribunal.
Financial Services Ombudsman
Many financial service providers may be subject to an investigation by the Ombudsman, in particular banks, building societies, insurance companies, mortgage brokers and health insurance companies. It sets out the initial steps required to formalise a complaint to the Financial Services Ombudsman, and it also contains the necessary complaint form.
Finuas - funded by Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
The Finuas Networks Programme (Finuas) has been approved for up to €2.5m for 2009. This is funded by the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment from the resources of the National Training Fund. Finuas is dedicated to developing enterprise-led learning networks exclusively within the International Financial Services sector. Skillnets shall act as the Managing Agent for the Finuas Networks Programme on behalf of the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment.
Health & Safety Authority
The Health & Safety Authority website contains a useful list of health and safety legislation under four categories: general legislation, chemical legislation, construction legislation and mines and quarries legislation. It also contains a number of useful guides in relation to issues such as manual handling, personal protective equipment etc, that may be useful in occupational injury litigation.
Human Rights Commission
The Irish Human Rights Commission website contains details on the Commission’s power and functions. It also contains links to various acts concerning human rights including the European Convention on Human Rights, the Good Friday Agreement and the Constitution.
Information Commissioner
This contains a useful guide to the powers of the ombudsman and provides a list of sample cases and case digest.
Iris Oifigiúil
This is the official Irish State gazette. The website contains copies of all issues since 2002. Iris Oifigiúil publishes details of legislation enacted, newly made statutory instruments, exchequer statements, appointments to State boards, notices required under the Companies Acts and recently published government publications.
Irish Constitution
This is the website of the all party Oireachtas Committee on the Constitution. It details the Committee’s current work and has all the previous progress reports on the Committee’s review of the
Constitution. Has a link to the full text of the Irish Constitution.
Labour Court
The Labour Court website contains the 45 registered employment
agreements regarding rates of pay in various sectors. It also includes the 19 Joint Labour Committees’ minimum rates of pay for various sectors. It also contains all the forms to download for making applications to the Labour Court under the relevant legislation. It also includes a searchable database of full text Labour Court recommendations, determinations and decisions.
Labour Relations Commission
The website of the Labour Relations Commission includes all the relevant forms to download to enable someone to make a complaint to a Rights Commissioner under the relevant legislation. It also explains the role of the Rights Commissioners and the procedure involved in a claim before them.
Law Reform Commission
Contains all the Law Reform Commission publications – consultation papers (formerly working papers), reports and annual reports.
Office of Director of Consumer Affairs
The documents section of this website contains useful guides to items such as travel and the consumer, unfair terms in consumer contracts, toy safety, passenger rights, the Consumer Credit Act and consumer rights when buying or selling goods.
Office of Director of Corporate Enforcement
The website of the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement contains links to the Companies Acts and secondary legislation. It also sets out a guide to the duties of company directors . It provides a list of offences under the Companies Acts and a list of the powers available to the Director of Corporate Enforcement.
Patents and Trademarks
This is the website of the Controller of Patents, Designs and Trademarks. It provides a useful guide to patents, trademarks, designs and copyright and how to apply for registration of a patent, trademark or design.
Pensions Board
This is a useful guide to the regulations concerning pensions and contains a number of leaflets on items such as company pension plans, personal retirement saving accounts (PRSAs) and personal pensions.
Pensions Ombudsman
This website contains links to various pieces of legislation concerning pensions and deals with what can be investigated by the Pensions Ombudsman, and how to make a complaint.
Personal Injuries Assessment Board
The forms and publications section has all the application forms, the Book of Quantum and links to the Personal Injuries Assessment Board Acts 2003 and 2007.
Private Residential Tenancies Board
This website contains useful guides to the Private Residential Tenancies Board. It also includes the registration form. Somewhat extraordinarily, it does not contain an application form for dispute
resolution.
Property Registration Authority
Contains practice directions and forms on all aspects of Land Registry and Registry of Deeds practice. Landdirect.ie is the Property Registration Authority’s subscription-based online service which gives authorised users access to all Land Registry folios and the online map.
Refugee Information Service
This website contains an overview of the immigration and asylum legislation, the asylum process, the resident process and details about the family reunification scheme.
Residential Institutions Redress Board
This website contains a useful guide to the work of the Residential Institutions Redress Board. It contains details of the Act setting up the scheme and Statutory Instruments made pursuant to the Act. It also has available the general application form and the procedure involved in the hearing of a case and the documents that an applicant will have to have available for such a hearing.
Revenue Commissioners
This website contains a wide range of materials relating to tax practice including statements of practice, guidance notes, precedents, details of double taxation treaties and access to all revenue forms.