Rights check

Locate the relevant Act and section, quote it as enacted, show pending changes, and send the user to the official plain-English guidance. This is information, not legal advice. Use legislation-lookup when the user already knows the Act and section.

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Calling the tools

Steps name each operation as source/operation (e.g. legislation/legislation_list_acts), using the typed tool name as the operation. On the default surface, run it with ireland_call, for example:

{ "source": "legislation", "operation": "legislation_list_acts", "args": { "year": 2004, "query": "residential tenancies" } }

If an argument shape is unclear, call ireland_describe with { "source", "operation" } first; it returns the schema and an example. search, fetch and nearby are top-level tools. If the server was added with ?toolsets=<ids> or ?toolsets=all, the typed tool can be called directly with the same args.

Steps

1. Restate the question as a topic and, if known, the likely Act (e.g. tenancy notice periods → Residential Tenancies Act 2004).
2. Find the Act. When the year is known, call legislation/legislation_list_acts with { "year", "query": "<title words>" }. Top-level search only scans Acts from the last three years unless the query includes a year (e.g. "residential tenancies 2004"), so add the year or use legislation/legislation_list_acts.
3. Find the section. Call legislation/legislation_get_act with { "year", "number" } for the table of sections; pick the relevant section headings. Some older Acts return an empty sections list; then open the eISB link from the response to find the section number, or try likely sections directly.
4. Quote it. Call legislation/legislation_get_section with { "year", "number", "section" }. Quote the operative words briefly with the eISB link. This is the text as enacted; later Acts may have amended it. Say so, and point to the Law Reform Commission's Revised Acts for current text.
5. Pending changes. Call oireachtas/oireachtas_search_bills with title words and status: "Current" to list bills that would change the area, with stage and date.
6. Plain-English guidance. Link the relevant citizensinformation.ie topic page by its title. If the connected server lists a Citizens Information or legal-evidence source in ireland_catalogue (an opt-in beta, not on the default hosted server), you may use it and cite it; otherwise do not claim to have read Citizens Information.
7. Who to contact. Name the body that decides such matters (e.g. RTB, WRC, CCPC, Data Protection Commission, Department of Social Protection) without predicting an outcome.

Output format

Illustrative layout; the values are examples, not data.

## What the law says: notice periods for ending a tenancy (information, not legal advice)
**Act:** Residential Tenancies Act 2004 (No. 27 of 2004), as enacted — <eISB link>
**Section <n>:** "<short quote>"
**Amended since?** Likely; check the Revised Act at revisedacts.lawreform.ie.
**Bills that would change this:** 2025/83 ... — Second Stage, Dáil, 2026-01-10
**Plain-English guide:** Citizens Information, "Ending a tenancy" (citizensinformation.ie)
**Who decides disputes:** Residential Tenancies Board
Sources
- Irish Statute Book © Office of the Attorney General (PSI / CC BY 4.0); Oireachtas Open Data (PSI)

Rules

• Follow ../_shared/citations.md.
• Begin and end with "not legal advice". Recommend a solicitor, FLAC or the relevant body for a real decision.
• Quote, do not paraphrase into new legal rules. Never say a right applies to the user's facts.
• Text is as enacted; always flag that amendments may apply.