Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 10 December 2019
200. Deputy Jack Chambers asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of freedom of information requests in which his Department made a decision to deny; and the number in which the Information Commissioner overturned the decision of his Department in each of the years 2016 to 2018 and to date in 2019. [51459/19]
View answerMy Department reports annually to both the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Office of the Information Commissioner on Freedom of Information activity. The Office of the Information Commissioner publish this data in its annual report and the annual reports are available on the OIC’s website - https://www.oic.ie/publications/annual-reports/
The following table outlines the information requested.
FOI Requests - Refused
|
Year |
Total - Refused |
OIC - Annulled |
|
2016 |
92 |
1 |
|
2017 |
170 |
2 |
|
2018 |
110 |
1 |
|
2019 - to date 04/12 |
71 |
0 |
