Written answers
Wednesday, 20 February 2008
Department of An Taoiseach
Freedom of Information
9:00 pm
Lucinda Creighton (Dublin South East, Fine Gael)
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Question 168: To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide in tabular form the number of freedom of information requests that have been received by his Department each year since 1997; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6953/08]
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 |
| 1998 | 7 | 14 | 2 | 13 | 3 | 10 | 8 | 21 | 4 | 82 | |||
| 1999 | 18 | 9 | 57 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 20 | 13 | 11 | 16 | 32 | 13 | 207 |
| 2000 | 23 | 19 | 22 | 13 | 12 | 11 | 15 | 21 | 8 | 9 | 25 | 11 | 190 |
| 2001 | 37 | 25 | 31 | 33 | 22 | 19 | 31 | 18 | 12 | 12 | 24 | 12 | 276 |
| 2002 | 20 | 12 | 14 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 13 | 15 | 18 | 146 |
| 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 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 71 |
| 2008 | 4 | 4* | 8* | ||||||||||
| * to 18 February 2008. |
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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