Written answers
Thursday, 9 September 2021
Department of Rural and Community Development
Freedom of Information
Matt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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1621. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of freedom of information requests responded to by her 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 she will make a statement on the matter. [42971/21]
Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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My Department was established on 19 July 2017 and has received the following FOI requests since that date:
| Year | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 (at 06/09/2021) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total received | 14 | 58 | 79 | 58 | 32 |
| Granted | 4 | 14 | 31 | 14 | 6 |
| Part-Granted | 3 | 12 | 10 | 9 | 7 |
| Refused | 2 | 14 | 10 | 9 | 0 |
| Withdrawn | 3 | 6 | 10 | 11 | 8 |
| Handled outside FOI | 2 | 12 | 17 | 12 | 5 |
| Transferred | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Open requests | 0 | 1 | 6 | ||
| Internal Reviews | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Decision Upheld | 1 | 1 | 1 | N/A | |
| Decision Varied | 1 | 0 | 0 | N/A |
DRCD does not generally conduct official business on platforms i.e through an application (details supplied), however, there was one response that included documents related to text messages Under the Freedom of Information Act, 2014, granted.
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