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Tuesday, 16 June 2015

Department of Education and Skills

Freedom of Information Requests

Photo of Barry CowenBarry Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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724. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide, in tabular form, for each of the years 2009 to 2014 and for 2015, to date the total number of freedom of information requests received by her Department; the total number refused, granted, part-granted; successful appeals, part-successful appeals and refusals of appeals; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23606/15]

Photo of Jan O'SullivanJan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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The following table gives details of FOI requests from 2009 to date received by my Department. The total number of FOI requests for each of the years includes requests that were withdrawn, handled outside FOI or transferred to another public body.

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND SKILLS

Freedom of Information requests - 1st January 2009 – 10th June 2015

YearTotal received-Requests-Appeal - Internal Review (IR)-----Appeal - Office of the Information Commissioner (OIC)------
GrantedPart-grantedRefusedTotalAnnulVaryAffirmWithdrawnPendingTotalAnnulVaryAffirmSettledWithdrawnPending
2009
569
113
206
149
8
4
4
1
1
2010
796
127
254
167
13
3
8
2
6
1
2
1
2
2011
1170
83
237
318
15
5
10
3
1
1
1
2012
417
85
240
191
20
3
16
1
4
1
1
2
2013
328
30
110
114
25
6
19
8**
1
1
4
2
2014
303
39
101
84
14
2
12
2015
199
35
46
36
8
2
5
1
2
2

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