State has collected €50k in Freedom of Information fees since 2014
Fees across 18 departments more than €53,000 seven years after government abolished up-front fees for FOI requests
Government departments have collected more than €50,000 in fees for processing Freedom of Information (FOI) requests since up-front costs for inquiries were abolished in 2014, new figures show.
Across the government, departments have charged more than €53,000 between search and retrieval fees and the costs of internal reviews of FOI requests.
Figures provided to Catherine Murphy, the co-leader of the Social Democrats, show that the Department of Housing charged the most in FOI fees, at ...