Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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516. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the amount his Department has received in fees from freedom of information requests in 2014 and in 2015 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45760/15]

Charles Flanagan (Laois-Offaly, Fine Gael)
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The amount my Department has received in fees from Freedom of Information (FOI) requests in 2014 and 2015 to date is set out in the following table.

Only certain FOI requests will accrue search and retrieval fees. A minimum fee threshold of €101, or 5 hours of an officer’s time, for FOI request exists. Below this threshold, no search, retrieval or copying fees are charged. Total search and retrieval fees paid to my Department for the period in question amount to €1,015. However, this figure in no way reflects the time and resources devoted by officers of my Department responding to FOI requests.