Freedom of Information Data

Tuesday, 8 July 2014

Questions (621)

Seán Fleming

Question:

621. Deputy Sean Fleming asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will outline in tabular form for each year from 2009 to date in 2014 the total number of FOI requests received by her Department; the total refused; total granted; total part-granted; total appealed; total of successful appeals; total of part-successful appeals; total of refusals; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29072/14]

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Minister for Justice and Equality

The information sought by the Deputy is set out in the following table.

Year	Number received	Number Granted	Number Part Granted	Number refused	Number Appealed	Number Granted or Decision set aside	Number Part Granted	Number of Appeals Refused
2009	844	214	187	123	61	9	18	24
2010	598	170	174	149	78	11	21	40
2011	597	116	263	117	67	11	17	37
2012	594	184	226	142	60	9	13	38
2103	550	176	233	116	84	7	21	52
2014*	281	66	105	76	32	2	7	14

*Figures are up to end of June 2014. This figure also includes the number of requests which are ongoing.

I wish to point out to the Deputy that the figure for the number of Freedom of Information requests received each year also includes number of requests which were transferred, withdrawn and/or handled outside the Act. It is for this reason that the figures referring to the overall number of requests received, do not equate to the figures granted/part granted/refuse for each year.