Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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117. To ask the Taoiseach the number of FOI requests his Department has received since January 2018; the number of refusals; and the number that have been appealed and that are ongoing. [30576/18]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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My Department received 299 Freedom of Information requests from the start of this year to the end of June. Of these, 187 requests were granted or part granted, 20 requests were refused and no records were held in relation to 38 requests. 10 requests were withdrawn or handled outside FOI, 1 request was transferred and 43 requests were ongoing at the end of June.

There were 12 requests for internal reviews of decisions made by my Department and no appeals have been made to the Office of the Information Commissioner.