Matt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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387. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of freedom of information requests responded to by his Department in each of the years 2016 to 2020 and to date in 2021; the number of responses that included documents related to text messages and other phone message communications such as messages sent through an application (details supplied) in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42968/21]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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The number of Freedom of Information requests responded to by my Department each year since 2016 is set out in the table below.

Details of the FOI requests responded to, including a description of the request, the origin of the request and the decision, are contained in the logs. Information in respect of the sort of documents included in individual responses is not maintained. Its compilation would involve a disproportionate amount of time and work as it would necessitate the examination of each request responded to.

Should the Deputy wish to submit a further more specific question in relation to a particular FOI request, I will endeavour to provide the information.