Written answers
Wednesday, 29 November 2006
Department of Agriculture and Food
Freedom of Information
9:00 pm
Joe Costello (Dublin Central, Labour)
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Question 34: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the outcome of each of the requests her Department has received under freedom of information legislation during each of the past five years. [40544/06]
Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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My Department has received the following number of requests for records under the Freedom of Information Acts. The outcome of these requests is as indicated in the tablebelow:
| Year | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 to date |
| Total requests received | 363 | 318 | 290 | 212 | 209 |
| Granted | 98 | 120 | 119 | 75 | 77 |
| Part Granted | 108 | 58 | 86 | 49 | 49 |
| Refused | 64 | 59 | 42 | 52 | 32 |
| Transferred | 1 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Withdrawn | 53 | 33 | 9 | 4 | 5 |
| Invalid | 0 | 9 | 20 | 22 | 12 |
| Outside FOI* | 36 | 25 | 9 | 6 | 8 |
| Lapsed | 3 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 0 |
| Live Cases | 24 | ||||
| * These figures represent the number of requests where the information sought was supplied outside of the Freedom of Information Acts. Agreement was reached with the requester in each case. |
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