Mairéad Farrell (Galway West, Sinn Fein)
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138. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of freedom of information requests being processed by her 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 she will make a statement on the matter. [19347/20]

Catherine Martin (Dublin Rathdown, Green Party)
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I understand that there are currently twelve active requests under the Freedom of information Act on hand in my Department all of which are being processed  in accordance with the timeframes set out in the Act.  

The time frame for processing one of  the twelve  cases referred to above has been extended  to provide for third party consultation as provided for under  Section 38 of the Freedom of information Act.