Barry Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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467. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide in tabular form per annum from 2009 to date in 2014 the total number of freedom of information requests received by his Department; the total refused; total granted; total part granted; total appealed; total successful appeals; total part successful appeals; total refusals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49245/14]

Charles Flanagan (Laois-Offaly, Fine Gael)
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Details requested by the Deputy are provided in tabular format below. My Department returns annual figures on FOI requests to the Office of the Information Commissioner (OIC); however, as the OIC does not request details of decisions at internal review stage, these statistics are not available for all years.

The total number of requests refused includes cases where the information requested did not exist.

Number of FOI requests received by Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade