Written answers
Thursday, 14 June 2018
Department of Education and Skills
Freedom of Information Data
Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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80. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills 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. [25961/18]
Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael)
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The following table gives details of the number FOI requests received by my Department since January 2018. The table includes the number that were appealed, refused and granted, respectively and the costs that were applied.
Freedom of Information requests - 1 January 2018 - 11 June 2018
Requests | Appeal - Internal Review (IR) | Internal Review - Fees Charged | Appeal - Office of the Information Commissioner (OIC) | |||||||
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Year | Total Received (Year to Date)* | Granted | Part-Granted | Request Transferred | Request withdrawn or handled outside of FOI | Refused | Current FOI on Hand | Total | Total | Total |
2018 | 289 | 34 | 54 | 9 | 89 | 41 | 62 | 9 | €210 | 1 |
Note:
- Total FOIs 2018 to date includes 34 live FOIs carried over from 2017
- Of the 9 appealed for internal review, 8 were upheld, 1 partially overturned
- The Appeal to the Information Commissioner is yet to be considered.
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