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Annual Report 2005 - Text Version

Contents

Foreword

Chapter 1:

Introduction

Chapter 2:  The Year in Review 

Collation of Statistics

Level of Requests to Public Bodies

Type of Request

Type of Requester

Release Rates

Applications to my Office for review

Fees Received

Reviews of Decisions

Time Taken to Complete Reviews

Outcome of Reviews

General Queries Dealt with by my Office

Statutory Notices

Certificates Issued under the FOI Act

Appeals to the High Court and Supreme Court

New Bodies within the Remit of the FOI Act

Review of Non-Disclosure Provisions

Industrial and Reformatory Schools and Children in the Care of the State

Website Review

Official Languages Act, 2003

Staffing

Chapter 3:  Issues Arising

Introduction

School Inspection Reports

Nursing Home Inspection Reports

Access to Records of Deceased Persons

Records Management

Questionable Conduct of a Public Body and a Third Party

Section 29

High Court and Supreme Court Judgments

Chapter 4:  Decisions

Index of Topics Covered

Records Relating to Tribunals or Inquiries

Amendment of Medical Records

Access to Psychiatric Records

Creation of New Records in Order to Grant a Request

Scope of Internal Reviews

Records of the Government

Chapter 5:  Statistics

Index to Tables

Appendix I

Ministerial Certificate Issued under Section 25

Appendix II

Review under Section 25 (7) ofj Ministerial Certificates Issued

Staff List