Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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145. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade 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. [30570/18]

Simon 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 following table. To date 192 requests have been received, twenty-one requests have been refused, six requests for internal reviews of decisions have been sought and one appeal for a review of a FOI decision of my Department is under consideration by the Office of the Information Commissioner.