All Freedom of Information requests received in my Department are processed by designated officials in accordance with the FOI Acts. In the case of non-personal requests the legislation specifies that a fee shall be charged equal to the estimated cost of search, retrieval and copying of records concerned.
The details requested for the years specified are set out in the table below. The maximum fee sought by my Department in this period in respect of a request received was for €2,681.60.
While this request was withdrawn, the request for information was handled outside of FOI and information provided to the requester.
Given that the scale of such fees depend on the volume of records involved, my Department endeavours to assist requesters to refine requests that are very broad to keep fees to a minimum.
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2012
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2013
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Total FOI Requests
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153
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91
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Total where Search and Retrieval fee sought
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30
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14
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Total where request not proceeded with following non-payment
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12
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1
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