ie-eli-mcp

Install (one command)

Published on PyPI + MCP Registry (io.github.matematicsolutions/ie-eli-mcp). Run without cloning:

bash

uvx ie-eli-mcp

Configure your MCP client (stdio):

config.json

{ "mcpServers": { "ie-eli-mcp": { "command": "uvx", "args": ["ie-eli-mcp"] } } }

Windows 11 with Smart App Control

Smart App Control blocks unsigned executables, which covers uvx.exe, pip.exe and the ie-eli-mcp.exe launcher that pip writes at install time. The python.exe and py.exe from the python.org installer are signed by the Python Software Foundation, so running the module through the interpreter works:

bash

python -m pip install ie-eli-mcp
python -m ie_eli_mcp

pip.exe is blocked for the same reason, so install with python -m pip, not pip install. If python is not on PATH, use the Windows launcher: py -3 -m ie_eli_mcp.

config.json

{ "mcpServers": { "ie-eli-mcp": { "command": "python", "args": ["-m", "ie_eli_mcp"] } } }

Do not turn Smart App Control off to work around this - it cannot be re-enabled without reinstalling Windows.

Building from source: see Install.

An MCP server for the Irish Statute Book (irishstatutebook.ie), the official source of Irish legislation. It grounds Irish acts and statutory instruments (SIs) by year + number, returning metadata and the full enacted text, with verifiable ELI identifiers and Irish citations.

Part of the MateMatic eu-legal-mcp production line - after PL, DE, AT, ES and FI. Same citation contract, Irish Statute Book source.

Scope. This MVP grounds the ENACTED text of acts and SIs by coordinates (year + number + type). The Irish Statute Book has no keyword-search API here, so discovery is by citation (Irish citations give the coordinates, e.g. "No. 7 of 2018"). Revised/consolidated versions are separate and not covered. Every response carries a dataset_note.

Licence. Irish Statute Book content is official public information. This connector relays it with attribution and a source_url.

The tools

Tool	What it does
`ie_get_act`	Metadata for an act or SI by year + number + type.
`ie_get_text`	Full enacted text (`html` or `xml`).
`ie_coverage`	Declare what this connector covers, when each family was captured, and - explicitly - what it does NOT cover. Every gap carries a fallback.

Every response carries the contract: eli_uri (e.g. https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2018/act/7/enacted/en), human_readable_citation (e.g. DATA PROTECTION ACT 2018 (No. 7 of 2018)), and source_url.

Install

bash

cd ie-eli-mcp
pip install -e .

Configure (Claude Code / any MCP client)

config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ie-eli-mcp": { "command": "ie-eli-mcp" }
  }
}

Environment:

IE_ELI_BASE_URL - default https://www.irishstatutebook.ie
IE_ELI_CACHE_DIR - default ~/.matematic/cache/ie-eli
IE_ELI_AUDIT_DIR - default ~/.matematic/audit

No API key.

Governance

Public data only - read-only against the Irish Statute Book; no client data leaves the machine.
Audit log - every tool call appends one JSON line to ~/.matematic/audit/ie-eli-mcp.jsonl.
Vendor-neutral - talks only to irishstatutebook.ie; no LLM provider, no telemetry.
Verifiable citations - every response is independently checkable via source_url.

See CONSTITUTION.md and DISCOVERY.md.

Tests

Terminal

pip install -e ".[dev]"
pytest tests/test_instructions_drift.py -v   # offline
pytest tests/test_smoke.py -v                # hits live Irish Statute Book