Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2018 09:23:37 +0000
Subject: RE: FOI 23544 - Notice of intention to refuse request - Consultation due to practical refusal reason - Response sought by 29 August 2018 [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
From: Verity Pane <xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx>
To: "Information.Law" <
xxxxxxxxxx@xxx.xxx.xx>
Dear Unnamed Officer,
As you waited until the second last day to issue a practical refusal notice, when practice is that practical refusal notification should be made within 14 days (and it appears the reason for the late issue was to intentionally delay progress of this FOI, unethically), I will only grant you an additional 14 days (plus an extra day or two to show I’m kinder than you) from the original statutory expiry date.
The new statutory deadline is therefore 5pm on Friday 31 August 2018.
Yours sincerely,
Verity Pane
-----Original Message-----
Good evening Verity Pane,
Thank you for your email and option to revise the scope.
Information regarding the amount of work involved and options to revise were provided to you on 15 August. A decision to impose a charge to process your request has not been considered because the work involved in processing your request in its current form, would result in a diversion of resources. An extension of time to process your request would not remove the practical refusal reasons in its current form. As explained in the consultation notice to you, the request is considered both substantial and unreasonable for one request. The process involved in extracting the information you seek and the type of legal expenses that may be covered in that data was explained in the notice. The notice provided options to you, including for example, to revise the timeframe or even clarify which payment types you wanted captured. Further, information about the Department's volume of FOI requests is publicly available (e.g. within the OAIC's Annual Report and on data.gov.au;
https://data.gov.au/dataset/freedom-of-information-statistics). This should give you an indication of the volume of requests the Department deals with each year.
Based on the below, I am satisfied that revising the scope to the 2015/16 Financial Year will remove the practical refusal reason. We would be grateful if you would agree to an extension of time under section 15AA of the FOI Act, to allow the Department more time finalise your request. If possible, we would be grateful for an extension of 30 days.
I hope the above assists.
Kind Regards,
Information Law Team
Department of Veterans’ Affairs
E: [email address] | W:
www.dva.gov.au
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