Cormac Devlin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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255. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of requests under GDPR or FOI for personal data from her Department, including average processing times monthly during the period 1 January 2020 to 1 March 2023, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12072/23]

Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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My Department is among the busiest Departments in terms of FOI traffic and is also among the most compliant with respect to the obligatory timelines. We do not track the average timelines but less than 1% of total FOI requests received are ‘deemed refused’, that is, not completed within the statutory timeframe. None of the requests that were deemed refused were personal requests. My Department’s deemed refused statistics, among other reported statistics, are available in Annual Reports of the Office of the Information Commissioner.

Similarly, with Subject Access Requests we do not capture average timings but again the compliance rates with regards to the statutory timelines are excellent. During the timeframe referred to, just one complaint was made to the Data Protection Commission in 2021 regarding a missed deadline.

The attached table provides the relevant data.