Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 16 June 2015
686. Deputy Barry Cowen asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide, in tabular form, for each year from 2009 to 2014 and for 2015 to date, the total number of freedom of information requests received by his Department; the total refused, granted, part-granted, successful appeals, and part-successful appeals; and refusals of appeals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23609/15]
View answerThe information requested by the Deputy is provided in the table following. I also refer the Deputy to the response to Parliamentary Question No. 467 on 18 December 2014 in which my Department provided him with much of the same information as set out in the table. My Department returns annual figures on Freedom of Information (FOI) requests to the Office of the Information Commissioner (OIC). However, the OIC does not request details of decisions at internal review stage and these statistics are not available for all years. The total number of requests refused includes cases where the information requested did not exist.
Number of FOI requests received by Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
|
Year |
Total Requests* |
Requests Granted |
Requests Part-granted |
Requests Refused |
|
2009 |
86 |
37 |
33 |
8 |
|
2010 |
87 |
23 |
27 |
19 |
|
2011 |
68 |
16 |
34 |
8 |
|
2012 |
138 |
39 |
47 |
17 |
|
2013 |
88 |
29 |
23 |
21 |
|
2014 |
117 |
34 |
42 |
18 |
|
2015 to date |
56 |
17 |
10 |
10 |
*Total Requests include requests subsequently withdrawn, withdrawn and answered outside the FOI Act or transferred.
Number of FOI requests appealed and subject to an internal review
|
Date |
Internal Reviews |
Original Decision Annulled |
Original Decision Varied |
Original decision affirmed |
|
2009 |
4 |
Not available |
Not available |
Not available |
|
2010 |
3 |
0 |
2 |
1 |
|
2011 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
|
2012 |
8 |
1 |
2 |
5 |
|
2013 |
7 |
0 |
1 |
6 |
|
2014 |
9 |
0 |
3 |
6 |
|
2015 to date |
4 |
0 |
1 |
3 |
