Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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261. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of freedom of information requests received by his Department in each of the years 2013 to 2017; the average time taken in these years to complete the requests by his Department; the number of requests to his Department for these years that ran beyond the deadline for the request; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6898/18]

Shane Ross (Dublin Rathdown, Independent)
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The information requested by the Deputy in respect of FOIs received by my Department for the years 2013 to 2017 is set out as follows:

Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport - FOI Requests received 2013 to 2107

My Department does not have data readily available in relation to the average time taken to complete requests or the number of requests that went beyond the deadline for all of the years mentioned.  However, we are currently compiling such data in relation to 2017 and will  forward the information to the Deputy as soon as it is completed.

In general, the Department operates within the required timeframes but in relation to some requests, deadlines can change, with consent of requestor where refining of the data requested takes place etc.

The Deputy may be interested in related statistics on FOI that are published by the Information Commissioner in his Annual Reports and are available at this link www.oic.gov.ie