Application Forms

The following application forms may be used to submit FOI requests to University College Cork.  The forms are in MS Word format. 

• Request for Access to Records, s.12
• Request for Access to Records (s.12) - Irish Version
• Request for Amendment to Records, s.9
• Request for Reasons for a Decision, s.10

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Legislation

The Regulations extending the terms of the Freedom of Information Act, 1997, to University College Cork were signed into law on 22nd October 2001 and became effective from 1st October 2001.

The Freedom of Information (Amendment) Act, 2003, was signed into law on 11th April 2003.

These Acts were replaced on 14 October 2014 by the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act 2014

FOI Disclosure Log

The Freedom of Information (FOI) Act 2014 requires FOI bodies such as UCC to publish a Disclosure Log, which contains details of all non-personal requests received under FOI since January 2015 and the decisions made by the body in response to those requests.

UCC’s FOI Disclosure Log is available below.

Disclosures are grouped by year and are listed in order of the date the request was received. Please note that, for privacy reasons, identifying information such as the name of the requester is not included in the disclosure log.

If you require further information on the data contained in the Disclosure Log, please contact the Freedom of Information Officer by email at foi@ucc.ie

FOI Disclosure Log 2023

FOI Disclosure Log 2022

FOI Disclosure Log 2021

FOI Disclosure Log 2020

FOI Disclosure Log 2019

FOI Disclosure Log 2018

FOI Disclosure Log 2017

FOI Disclosure Log 2016

FOI Disclosure Log 2015

Useful Links

UCC Links:

• UCC Data Protection

• UCC Records Management

 Irish FOI Websites:

• Office of the Information Commissioner

• FOI Central Policy Unit, Department of Public Expenditure & Reform

FOI at other Irish Universities:

• Dublin City University (DCU)

• National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG)

• National University of Ireland, Maynooth (NUIM)

• Trinity College Dublin (TCD)

• University College Dublin (UCD)

• University of Limerick (UL)

Other FOI Links:

• Scottish Information Commissioner

• UK Information Commissioner

• President Barack Obama's Memorandum on the FOI Act

• President Barack Obama's Memorandum on Transparency & Open Government