Thank you for being here today, Ms. Maynard. I think your testimony before this committee is always interesting and you give us a lot to think about.
My office has studied certain data. Earlier, you had mentioned the enormous number of access to information requests received by the Department of Citizenship and Immigration. The analysis done by my office shows that access to information requests made to that department nine year ago amounted to a little less than half the total number of requests to federal institutions. Now, they represent nearly three quarters.
What could explain this huge increase in the number of access to information requests? We know from the earlier appearances by representatives of the Department of Citizenship and Immigration that the department has problems and is developing a new data processing system to automate the process. Do you think that will really help reduce the number of access to information requests?