Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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61. To ask the Minister for Finance 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. [25963/18]

Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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To date, 185 FOI requests have been processed by the Department of Finance since January 2018.

Five FOI requests were appealed to the Department requesting Internal Review; four affirmed the original decision, while one varied the original decision. One FOI request was appealed directly to the Office of the Information Commissioner and was subsequently withdrawn by the requestor.

To date in 2018, the fees that have been paid to the Department by requestors is €281.36 for FOI requests, and €60.00 for Internal Reviews.

The Department publishes an FOI Disclosure Log on a quarterly basis, since January 2015, on the Department's website; this log details all FOIs processed by the Department.