Written answers
Wednesday, 21 October 2015
Department of Health
Freedom of Information Data
Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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124. To ask the Minister for Health 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. [36750/15]
Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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The information requested by the Deputy is contained in the following table. Under S14 of the Freedom of Information Act, extensions to the 4 week deadline may only be sought where there is a significant number of records or where there are a number of requests for the same record(s) and compliance with the four week deadline is not "reasonably possible".
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUESTS
- | 2015 |
---|---|
Number Received (to 19 October 2015) | 282 |
Number completed within the 4 week deadline | 133 |
Number of requests in respect of which an extension was sought under S.14 | 11 |
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