Timmy Dooley (Clare, Fianna Fail)
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529. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of freedom of information requests his Department has received regarding a concession agreement with a company (details supplied); the number granted; the number refused; the number granted following the intervention of the Office of the Information Commissioner; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43358/18]

Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael)
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My Department received eleven FOI requests in relation to the Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs) and to the Concession Agreement with enet who manage the MANs on behalf of the State, in the period from 1 January 2012 to 16 October 2018.

Of these, four requests were part-granted and five were refused, as provided for within the exemption provisions of the FOI Act. Two FOI requests are currently being processed.

The decision in relation to one request received in 2015 was the subject of an appeal to the Office of the Information Commissioner, and is the subject of ongoing legal proceedings.

Timmy Dooley (Clare, Fianna Fail)
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530. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of freedom of information requests received regarding the national broadband #plan; the number granted; the number refused; the number granted following the intervention of the Office of the Information Commissioner; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43359/18]

Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael)
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My Department received fifty-four FOI requests regarding the National Broadband Plan and related matters in the period from 1 January 2012 to 16 October 2018.

Of these, three were withdrawn, while two requests were granted, seventeen requests were part-granted and fifteen requests were refused in accordance with the relevant provisions of the FOI Act. Seventeen FOI requests are currently being processed.

The decision in relation to one request received in 2015 was the subject of an appeal to the Office of the Information Commissioner, and was upheld by that Office.