Written answers
Thursday, 12 February 2009
Department of Finance
Freedom of Information
5:00 pm
Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 92: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of freedom of information requests received by his Department each month in 2007 and 2008 in tabular format; the number acceded to; the number refused; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5401/09]
Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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My Department received 66 FOI requests in 2007 and 180 requests in 2008. As well as "the number acceded to" and "the number refused", there were a number of requests which were "part granted" and others which were "withdrawn". (In general, those withdrawn requests were either transferred to other Departments or were handled outside the FOI Act). All are included on a month-by-month basis in the following tables:
| 2007 | |||||
| Month | Received | Acceded to | Part Granted | Refused | Withdrawn |
| January | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | |
| February | 3 | 3 | |||
| March | 6 | 4 | 2 | ||
| April | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | |
| May | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |
| June | 7 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 |
| July | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| August | 6 | 2 | 4 | ||
| September | 3 | 1 | 2 | ||
| October | 2 | 2 | |||
| November | 15 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 5 |
| December | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |
| Totals | 66 | 12 | 27 | 6 | 21 |
| 2008 | |||||
| Month | Received | Accededto | Part Granted | Refused | Withdrawn |
| January | 6 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| February | 14 | 1 | 8 | 5 | |
| March | 12 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 1 |
| April | 18 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 4 |
| May | 20 | 5 | 9 | 1 | 5 |
| June | 7 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| July | 14 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 3 |
| August | 14 | 3 | 8 | 1 | 2 |
| September | 14 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 4 |
| October | 27 | 5 | 16 | 4 | 2 |
| November | 24 | 6 | 13 | 2 | 3 |
| December | 10 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 1 |
| Totals | 180 | 36 | 89 | 23 | 32 |
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