Mairéad Farrell (Galway West, Sinn Fein)
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98. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of freedom of information requests being processed by his Department; the number that have had the deadline for reply extended; the number at least one week, two weeks. one month and over one month overdue, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19344/20]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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Details of the number of freedom of information requests currently being processed by this Department; the number that have had the deadline for reply extended; the number at least one week, two weeks. one month and over one month overdue, are outlined in the table below.

The reasons for extensions in the instances referenced include: increased workload leading to reduced capacity to process requests, a large volume of records being sought, insufficient details being provided by the requester and further clarity sought and in one instance a request was extended due to files dating back 30+ years which needed to be brought in from offsite storage.