Written answers
Tuesday, 24 October 2006
Department of An Taoiseach
Freedom of Information
9:00 pm
Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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Question 223: To ask the Taoiseach the number of requests under the Freedom of Information Acts received by his Department in each year from 2002 to 2005 and to date in 2006; the amount of money received in application fees for each year; the amount of money received in information retrieval fees for each year; the percentage of requests coming from journalists in each year; the percentage of retrieval fees that were charged to journalists rather than members of the public; the percentage of requests from journalists for which a retrieval fee was charged; the percentage of requests from members of the public for which a retrieval fee was charged; the average retrieval fee charged; the median retrieval fee charged; the number of cases in which the retrieval fee was waived; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33876/06]
Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)
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The statistical information sought relating to Freedom of Information requests received in my Department is contained in the table below.
2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 to date | ||
a | number of FOI requests received | 146 | 142 | 45 | 61 | 47 |
b | amount of money received in application fees | n/a | â'¬315.00 | â'¬585.00 | â'¬1005.00 | â'¬690.00 |
c | amount of money received in information retrieval fees | â'¬791.60 | â'¬180.17 | â'¬0.00 | â'¬35.12 | â'¬0.00 |
d | percentage of requests from journalists | 55% | 63% | 55% | 52% | 81% |
e | percentage of requests from journalists for which a retrieval fee was charged | 9% | 6% | 0% | 2% | 0% |
f | percentage of requests from others* for which a retrieval fee was charged | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
g | average retrieval charged | â'¬113.08 | â'¬36.04 | â'¬0 | â'¬35.12 | â'¬0 |
h | median retrieval charged | â'¬102.50 | â'¬48.19 | â'¬0 | â'¬35.12 | â'¬0 |
i | number of cases in which the retrieval fee was waived | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
j | percentage of retrieval fees charged to journalists rather than others* | see columns e & f | see columns e & f | see columns e & f | see columns e & f | see columns e & f |
*Other refers to all FOI applications received excluding journalists. |
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