Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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63. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of Freedom of Information requests, in tabular form, received by his Department in 2015 to date; the number of these where the period of consideration, was completed within four weeks of the receipt of the request; was extended by up to four weeks because the necessary resources to complete the request within the original time frame were not available. [36751/15]

Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
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The following table provides details of the total number of Freedom of Information (FOI) requests received by my Department and its Offices from 1^stJanuary 2015 to date in the format requested.

There were no occasions where the period of consideration was extended because the necessary resources to complete the request within the original timeframe were not available.

There were 6 occasions where the period of consideration was extended by a period of up to four weeks. However, in each case the request related to such a number of records that compliance within the initial statutory 4 week deadline was not reasonably possible. Accordingly, Section 14 of the FOI Act (Extension of time for consideration of FOI requests) was applied and the necessary notification provided to the requesters in each instance.

Freedom of Information Requests Received by the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation from 1 January to date in 2015