Creating a policy on gov.ie

A policy is a guide to what the government is considering in a particular area. It should refer to key publications and strategy documents while highlighting a cohesive narrative to the reader. Policy content pages should only include information that is not going to change in the short-term.

if a policy is related to a service then a link to that service should be inserted as early as possible so as to direct the user to the relevant service as quickly as possible
policy content should not refer to the division that created it. That content should be in Organisation Information
policies don't have to give every single detail of what the government is doing in a particular area - just the topline is fine. Policy information or publication pages can go into more detail
if a policy runs to more than 5 paragraphs (20 lines) then it goes to a a policy information page - a 'read more about X' - which is linked to the overarching policy
all documents, publications, speeches and news stories that form part of the policy should be tagged with the policy in the content management system (CMS)