John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)
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471. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of freedom of information requests received by his Department to date in 2017; the number of these that were fully or partially granted; and the number of such requests that were refused. [51858/17]

John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)
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472. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of freedom of information requests received by his Department to date in 2017; the number of these for which the period of consideration was completed within four weeks of the receipt of the request; and the number of these for 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. [51875/17]

Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 471 and 472 together.

The Department of Rural and Community Development was established in July 2017 and since then has received a total of ten Freedom of Information requests, four of which are currently being dealt with by officials in my Department.

The remaining six requests were all considered and completed within 20 working days of receipt of the request, no extensions were granted. Two of these requests were subsequently withdrawn. Regarding the remaining four requests, one was granted in full, two were partially granted and one request was refused.

Please see table.