Written answers
Tuesday, 10 July 2018
Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Freedom of Information Requests
Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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774. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of FOI requests his Department has received since January 2018; the number of refusals; the number that have been appealed and that are ongoing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30564/18]
Denis Naughten (Roscommon-Galway, Independent)
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Details of the FOI requests received by my Department in the period 1 January 2018 to 30 June 2018, as requested by the Deputy is set out in the Table below.
Total no. of requests received | No. of requests dealt with outside of the FOI process | No. of requests processed | No. of requests refused | No. of appeals | No. of requests that are ongoing |
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164 | 17 | 113 | 32 | 2 | 34 |
The basis for the refusal of the 32 FOI requests in the relevant period is as follows:
Section 15 -Records do not exist (19 cases)
Section 33- Matters relating to the defence or security of the State (5 cases)
Sections 29 & 30 – Deliberative process of FOI Bodies (4 cases)
Section 15 - Information already in the public domain ( 2 cases)
Section 42 - Record relating to private papers of a member of the Oireachtas (1 case)
Section 28 - Meetings of Government (1 case)
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