Written answers

Tuesday, 5 December 2017

Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment

Freedom of Information Data

Photo of John McGuinnessJohn McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)
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434. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of freedom of information requests received by his Department to date in 2017; the number which were fully or partially granted; and the number of such requests that were refused. [51847/17]

Photo of John McGuinnessJohn McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)
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435. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of freedom of information requests received by his Department to date in 2017; the number of which the period of consideration was completed within four weeks of the receipt of the request; and the number of which the period of consideration was extended by up to four weeks in view of the fact that the necessary resources to complete the request within the original timeframe were not available, in tabular form. [51864/17]

Photo of Denis NaughtenDenis Naughten (Roscommon-Galway, Independent)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 434 and 435 together.

The information requested by the Deputy is set out in the following table.

FOI Requests 1 January 2017 to 30 November 2017

Number of  Requests ReceivedGranted/Part GrantedRefusedNo. Completed Within 4 week periodNo.  For Which Extensions were sought (due to necessary resources not being available)
1908546890
The provisions in the FOI Act 2014 for an extension of the time limit for issuing a decision do not include a provision to request an extension of time due to necessary resources not being available.

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