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Annual Report 2003 Text Version

Contents

Foreword

Chapter 1

Introduction

Chapter 2 - The Year in Review

Collation Of Statistics

Level Of Requests To Public Bodies

Type of Requester

Release Rates

Applications to my Office for Review

Fees

Reviews of Decisions

Time Taken to Complete Reviews

Outcome of Reviews

Subject Matter of Reviews

Statutory Notices

Format of Decisions

General Queries Dealt with by my Office

Appeals to the High Court

New Bodies within the Remit of the Act

Promoting Public Awareness and Good Practice

Certificates Issued by Public Bodies

Records Management

Staffing

Chapter 3 - Issues Arising

Reviews relating to Industrial and Reformatory Schools and Children in the Care of the State

Manner of Access to Records

High Court Judgments

Records Management

The Oireachtas and Section 32 of the FOI Act

Access to Information on the Environment

Chapter 4 - Letter Decisions

Index of Topics Covered

Frivolous or Vexatious Requests

Further Records Located following intervention by Commissioner's Office

Access to School Inspection Reports prepared by the Department of Education and Science

Correspondence to the Department of Finance Seeking Amendments to Employee Share Ownership Trust legislation

Records of Tender Competition in relation to the sale of ICC Bank

Reasons for Acts of Public Bodies

Legal Professional Privilege and Contempt of Court

Chapter 5 - Statistics

Statistics

Appendix - Report of Ministerial Certificates Issued Under Section 25(11)

Staff List