Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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Question 112: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of freedom of information requests received by him in 2011; the number of requests for which a search and retrieval fee was sought; the maximum fee sought by him in respect of a request received; the number of requests not proceeded following the non payment of the search and retrieval fee sought; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10412/12]

Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)
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The number of Freedom of Information (FOI) requests received by my Department in 2011 was 61.

My Department has no record of the number of FOI requests for which a search and retrieval fee was sought but we have statistics on the number of fees paid. The total number of search and retrieval fees paid in 2011 was 6.

Again, my Department does not have a record of the maximum fees sought but does have a record of the highest fee received which was €481.85 in 2011.

There is no record of the number of requests not proceeded with following non-payment of search and retrieval fees sought.