Written answers

Thursday, 14 June 2018

Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

Freedom of Information Data

Photo of Micheál MartinMicheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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51. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of FOI requests his Department has received since January 2018; the number that were appealed, refused and granted, respectively; the costs that were applied; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25964/18]

Photo of Simon CoveneySimon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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A breakdown of the Freedom of Information (FOI) requests received by my Department since January 2018 is set out in the table below. Search and retrieval fees were not charged for any of these requests. To date four requests for internal reviews of decisions have been sought and review fees of €90, as prescribed by the legislation, were applied to reviews of requests of a non-personal nature.

FOIsNumber
Number of FOI requests granted 19
Number of FOI requests part-granted 31
Number of FOI requests refused 18
Number of FOI requests withdrawn15
Number of FOI requests withdrawn and handled outside of the Act 33
Number of FOI requests currently being processed/on hold 49
Total number of FOI requests received to date165

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