Written answers
Tuesday, 20 November 2007
Department of An Taoiseach
Freedom of Information
8:00 pm
Lucinda Creighton (Dublin South East, Fine Gael)
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Question 128: To ask the Taoiseach the number of Freedom of Information requests received by his Department in each year of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29468/07]
Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)
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The information requested by the Deputy is outlined in the following table.
Freedom of Information Applications Received in the Department of the Taoiseach | |||||||||||||
Year | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sept | Oct | Nov | Dec | Total |
2003 | 21 | 29 | 30 | 10 | 11 | 7 | 13 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 142 |
2004 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 12 | 1 | 5 | 45 |
2005 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 16 | 5 | 7 | 61 |
2006 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 54 |
2007 | 14 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 10 | — | 4 | 2* | ||
*to 15/11/07. |
All FOI applications received in my Department are processed by statutorily designated officials in accordance with the 1997 and 2003 Acts and, in accordance with those statutes, I have no role in relation to processing individual applications.
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