Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 82: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of freedom of information requests received by her Department each month in 2007 and 2008 in tabular format; the number acceded to; the number refused; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5399/09]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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There are eight separate prescribed bodies within my Department and its Offices subject to the Freedom of Information (FOI) Acts. In the following table, I have set out the total number of FOI requests received, and completed, by these bodies, for each month in 2007 and 2008. The table also outlines the decision taken.

My Department takes a proactive approach to FOI and to openness and transparency in general. Much information is released outside FOI and would not be reflected in the table. Indeed, in many cases where requests were withdrawn, the information was provided in this way.

In relation to the processing of FOI requests by the agencies under the remit of my Department, this is a day to day matter for each agency and one in which I have no function.