Written answers

Tuesday, 5 December 2017

Department of Defence

Freedom of Information Data

Photo of John McGuinnessJohn McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)
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545. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of freedom of information requests received by his Department to date in 2017; the number of which that were fully or partially granted; and the number of such requests that were refused. [51849/17]

Photo of Paul KehoePaul Kehoe (Wexford, Fine Gael)
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My Department received a total of 152 FOI requests between 1st January and 30th November 2017 (inclusive). Of these, 29 requests were withdrawn by the requester, 21 were transferred to other FOI bodies as the documents requested were not held by the Department of Defence, and 9 are still being processed.

Therefore, the Department of Defence has issued decisions on 93 FOI requests between the dates specified: 35 were granted, 28 were part granted and 30 were refused.

Photo of John McGuinnessJohn McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)
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546. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence 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. [51866/17]

Photo of Paul KehoePaul Kehoe (Wexford, Fine Gael)
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My Department received a total of 152 FOI requests between 1st January and 30th November 2017 (inclusive). Of these, 29 requests were withdrawn by the requester, 21 were transferred to other FOI bodies as the documents requested were not held by the Department of Defence, and 9 are still being processed. Therefore, the Department of Defence has issued decisions on 93 FOI requests between the dates specified. These responses are detailed in the following table.

Number of FOI requests to which responses were issued by the Department to date in 2017 Number of requests answered within 4 week timeframe Number of requests extended (with agreement of the requester) by up to 4 weeks
93 79 14

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