Barry Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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373. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide, in tabular form, for each year from 2009 to 2015 and for 2015 to date, the total number of Freedom of Information requests received by his Department; the total refused; granted; part-granted; successful appeals; part-successful appeals; and refusals of appeals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23601/15]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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The Freedom of Information data requested is set out in the table overleaf. In relation to your request for data concerning appeals, I have included data on both internal reviews carried out by more senior members of staff within my Department and on appeals to the Office of the Information Commissioner (OIC).

If a requester is not satisfied with the response of my Department to any aspect of his/her request for information he/she can seek to have the decision re-examined. The internal review of an FOI decision is carried out by a more senior member of staff within my Department. Following the outcome of the internal review of the decision, if a requester is still unhappy with the decision, he/she has the right to appeal the decision to the OIC.

* These statistics have not been compiled for the years 2009 to 2011 inclusive.