Written answers

Tuesday, 5 December 2017

Department of Justice and Equality

Freedom of Information Data

Photo of John McGuinnessJohn McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)
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251. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality 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. [51856/17]

Photo of John McGuinnessJohn McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)
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252. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality 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. [51873/17]

Photo of Charles FlanaganCharles Flanagan (Laois, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 251 and 252 together.

The details of Freedom of Information requests processed by my Department in 2017 are set out in the following table. 

Number of requests carried over from 2016109
Number of Requests received up to 31 October 2017659
Requests granted132
Requests part granted199
Requests refused212
Transferred to other public bodies2
Withdrawn37
Withdrawn and dealt with outside the Act41
Requests in progress145

At present, my Department does not maintain statistics on the number of requests where the timeframe for responding was extended or not adhered to.

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