Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 5 December 2017
251. Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of freedom of information requests received by his Department to date in 2017; the number of which that were fully or partially granted; and the number of such requests that were refused. [51856/17]
View answer252. Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of freedom of information requests received by his Department to date in 2017; the number of which the period of consideration was completed within four weeks of the receipt of the request; and the number of which the period of consideration was extended by up to four weeks in view of the fact that the necessary resources to complete the request within the original timeframe were not available, in tabular form. [51873/17]
View answerI propose to take Questions Nos. 251 and 252 together.
The details of Freedom of Information requests processed by my Department in 2017 are set out in the following table.
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Number of requests carried over from 2016 |
109 |
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Number of Requests received up to 31 October 2017 |
659 |
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Requests granted |
132 |
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Requests part granted |
199 |
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Requests refused |
212 |
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Transferred to other public bodies |
2 |
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Withdrawn |
37 |
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Withdrawn and dealt with outside the Act |
41 |
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Requests in progress |
145 |
At present, my Department does not maintain statistics on the number of requests where the timeframe for responding was extended or not adhered to.
