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Wed 10 Oct 2008Freedom of information requests fall by 10%
THE NUMBER of Freedom of information (FOI) requests declined by 10 per cent last year, according to the 10th annual report on the operation of the system, published yesterday by the Minister of State at the Department of Finance, Dr Martin Mansergh.
The Minister said the total number of requests across the public service in 2007 was 10,704, which represented a decline of 1,100, or 10 per cent, on the previous year.
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