138. Deputy Sean Fleming asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will outline in tabular form for each year from 2009 to date in 2014 the total number of FOI requests received by his Department; the total refused; total granted; total part-granted; total appealed; total of successful appeals; total of part-successful appeals; total of refusals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29069/14]

Details requested by the Deputy are provided in tabular format. My Department returns annual figures on FOI requests to the Office of the Information Commissioner (OIC). However, as the OIC does not request details of decisions at internal review stage, these statistics are not available for all years.

Number of FOI requests received by Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

*Total Requests includes requests subsequently withdrawn or transferred.

Number of FOI requests appealed and subject to an internal review