Written answers

Thursday, 9 September 2021

Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection

Freedom of Information

Photo of Catherine MurphyCatherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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662. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of occasions since 2014 her Department has refused to process a request under freedom of information using section 15(1)(g) of the Act; and the number of persons this has applied to since January 2014. [41662/21]

Photo of Heather HumphreysHeather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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The total number of requests under the Freedom of Information Acts received in the period from 2014 to date in 2021 is 16,810.

The number of requests refused under Section 15(1)(g) of the Freedom of Information Act 2014 in each year from 2014 to 2021 is set out in the following table.

Year Number of FOI Requests Number of FOI requests refused under Section 15(1)(g) Number of persons refused under Section 15(1)(g)
2014 2,193 2 2
2015 2,156 0 0
2016 2,089 1 1
2017 2,443 29 1
2018 2,510 221 78
2019 2,614 8 2
2020 1,706 3 2
2021 (to date) 1,099 0 0
TOTAL 16,810 256 86

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