Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 9 September 2021
1597. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of freedom of information requests responded to by his Department in each of the years 2016 to 2020 and to date in 2021; the number of responses that included documents related to text messages and other phone message communications such as messages sent through an application (details supplied), in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42958/21]
View answerThe Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine has responded to 2,369 Freedom of Information requests from 2016 to date. As requested, the numbers of these have been set out in tabular form in the table below. Information regarding the breakdown of the type or format of each communication covered in these responses is not recorded by the Department in the manner requested by the Deputy.
In order to identify the different types of format of record included in each response would require a manual examination of each of the 2,369 responses and the very many records included in each of their attachments. Such a detailed review would divert resources away from other important work.
|
Year |
Requests received |
|
2016 |
347 |
|
2017 |
391 |
|
2018 |
535 |
|
2019 |
381 |
|
2020 |
381 |
|
2021 (up to 07/09/2021) |
334 |
|
Total |
2369 |
