Written answers
Thursday, 18 December 2014
Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
Freedom of Information Requests
Barry Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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602. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide in tabular form, per annum, since 2009 and to date in 2014, the total number of freedom of information requests received by his Department; the total refused; the total granted; the total part granted; the total appealed; the total successful appeals; the total part successful appeals; the total refusals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49251/14]
Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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The data requested by the Deputy are provided in the Table below.
FOI Requests received in the Department between 2009 and 2014 (to 17 Dec.)
| Year | Total Requests | Refused | Granted | Part-granted | With-drawn * | Total Appeals ᶴ | Grant | Part Grant | Refuse † |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 [3+4+5+6] | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 [8+9+10] | 8 | 9 | 10 |
| 2009 | 117 | 26 | 37 | 27 | 27 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| 2010 | 114 | 17 | 31 | 44 | 22 | 7 | - | 4 | 3 |
| 2011 | 86 | 14 | 25 | 36 | 11 | 4 | - | 1 | 3 |
| 2012 | 125 | 21 | 30 | 39 | 35 | 4 | - | 3 | 1 |
| 2013 | 84 | 12 | 14 | 36 | 22 | 6 | - | 2 | 4 |
| 2014† | 93 | 3 | 18 | 25 | 27 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
*This heading includes FOI Requests which were handled outside of FOI. It also includes 1 Request transferred to another Department in 2009 and 2 thus transferred in 2012.
ᶴAppeals: this is equivalent to Department Internal Reviews. Thus, Col. 7 is a sub-group of Col. 2.
†The heading Refusal is taken to mean that the original Request Decision was upheld.
†For 2014, 20 Requests from the total of 93 remain to be decided (these are largely the most recent requests received) and 2 of the 5 appeals received are not yet concluded.
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