Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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268. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development 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. [6897/18]

Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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The Department of Rural and Community Development was established on 19 July 2017 and from that date to 31 December 2017, it received a total of 14 Freedom of Information requests, during the remaining 5.5 months of 2017.

Of these 14 requests, 5 were withdrawn, and the average time taken to complete the processing of the remaining 9 requests was 18 days. I can confirm that there were no requests that ran beyond the deadline for completion.