Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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971. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of FOI requests her Department has received since January 2018; the number of refusals; the number that have been appealed and that are ongoing; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30565/18]

Josepha Madigan (Dublin Rathdown, Fine Gael)
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I am advised that 137 Freedom of Information requests have been received in my Department since January 2018. Of these, 42 cases have been refused.  To date in 2018 only one request for internal review has been received.  The decision in this case was also appealed to the Office of the Information Commissioner.

The outcome of the Internal review and appeal to Office of the Information Commissioner affirmed the original decision.