Written answers
Tuesday, 27 February 2018
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Freedom of Information Data
Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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533. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of freedom of information requests his Department has received in the past eight years; the number which were accepted without further escalation and not accepted respectively; the number requested which were not accepted that were escalated to the Information Commissioner; the number which the Information Commissioner ruled in favour of the person requesting the freedom of information; the number which the Information Commissioner ruled against his Department; the number his Department appealed to the High Court; the number the High Court ruled against his Department in favour of the applicant; the number which were then brought to the Court of Appeal by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9285/18]
Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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The Freedom of Information data requested is set out in the following table.
In relation to your request for data concerning appeals, I have included data on both internal reviews carried out by more senior members of staff within my Department and on appeals to the Office of the Information Commissioner (OIC).
If a requester is not satisfied with the response of my Department to any aspect of his/her request for information he/she can seek to have the decision re-examined. The internal review of an FOI decision is carried out by a more senior member of staff within my Department. Following the outcome of the internal review of the decision, if a requester is still unhappy with the decision, he/she has the right to appeal the decision to the OIC.
My Department did not appeal any of the OIC decisions in question to the High Court.
Number of FOI..... | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 |
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Requests received | 214 | 243 | 255 | 275 | 205 | 319 | 347 | 391 |
Decisions reviewed internally | 28 | 31 | 29 | 31 | 19 | 39 | 22 | 44 |
Decisions appealed to OIC | 17 | 4 | 16 | 8 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 12 |
Decisions affirmed by OIC | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 4 |
Decisions varied by OIC | 5 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
Decisions annulled by OIC | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Appeals to OIC withdrawn | 8 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 |
Appeals to OIC on-going | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
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