Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 21 October 2015
124. Deputy Sean Fleming asked the Minister for Health the number of freedom of information requests, in tabular form, received by his Department in 2015 to date; the number of these where the period of consideration, was completed within four weeks of the receipt of the request; was extended by up to four weeks because the necessary resources to complete the request within the original time frame were not available. [36750/15]
View answerThe information requested by the Deputy is contained in the following table. Under S14 of the Freedom of Information Act, extensions to the 4 week deadline may only be sought where there is a significant number of records or where there are a number of requests for the same record(s) and compliance with the four week deadline is not "reasonably possible".
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUESTS
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- |
2015 |
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Number Received (to 19 October 2015) |
282 |
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Number completed within the 4 week deadline |
133 |
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Number of requests in respect of which an extension was sought under S.14 |
11 |
