Written answers

Tuesday, 10 December 2019

Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment

Freedom of Information Data

Photo of Jack ChambersJack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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509. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of freedom of information requests in which his Department made a decision to deny; and the number in which the Information Commissioner overturned the decision of his Department in each of the years 2016 to 2018 and to date in 2019. [51456/19]

Photo of Richard BrutonRichard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael)
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The number of Freedom of Information (FOI) requests refused by my Department, where the decision was subsequently annulled by the Office of the Information Commissioner (OIC) for the period 2016 to 2019, is set out in the following table.

No. of FOI Requests Refused* No. Annulled by OIC
2016 45* 0
2017 48* 1
2018 91 1
2019 (up to 3 Dec.), 173* 1

*figure includes requests carried forward from the previous year.

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