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Dáil Éireann díospóireacht -
Thursday, 18 Dec 2003

Vol. 577 No. 5

Written Answers. - Freedom of Information.

Enda Kenny

Ceist:

165 Mr. Kenny asked the Minister for Transport the total number of requests for information under the Freedom of Information Acts received by his Department in 2003; the number of requests received per month for 2003; the number of requests received per month for 2002; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31867/03]

The number of requests received by my Department from 1 January to date is detailed in the following tabular statement, together with the number of requests received from 1 January to 31 December 2002. The information is broken down into the number of requests received for each month for both years. My Department was established in June 2002 and, therefore, 73 of the requests received in 2002 were submitted to the former Department of Public Enterprise.

Freedom of Information Requests 2002-2003

2002

2003

January

10

30

February

20

21

March

16

19

April

10

10

May

10

13

June

22

12

July

12

33

August

15

2

September

10

2

October

33

6

November

20

4

December

23

3

Total

201

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