Mairéad Farrell (Galway West, Sinn Fein)
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184. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills 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. [19349/20]

Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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On Monday 27 July my Department has 56 active FOI Requests categorised as follows:

- 46 are presently active and being processed within the statutory timeframe

- 1 active request has a 2 week extension applied as allowable under section 14 of the FOI Act

- 4 are on hold – awaiting requester input – if a response is not received within 8 weeks they will be deemed withdrawn

- 3 are on hold + 1 month with the agreement of the requestor

- 3 are delayed + 1 month due to challenges identifying and locating the records and respective record owners.