The average number of days it takes for the state's Ombudsman to review Right to Information cases has blown out to 568 days.
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Ombudsman Richard Connock said the time taken to finalise a review remained a consistent problem.
This is despite additional funding from the state government to the office to assist with the backlog.
The average number of days per review went up 65 per cent in 2018-19 compared to 318 days in 2017-18, according to the Tasmanian Ombudsman recent annual report released on Tuesday.
Mr Connock said the number of applications for review had also increased over the past financial year to 59 from 43 in 2017-18.
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"During the same period, 39 files were closed, which was also a contrast to last year when 49 were closed," he said.
The Ombudsman received 382 complaints against the state government in 2018-19 of which 56 were partially or fully substantiated.
Of the complaints, 215 related to the Justice Department, 47 to Communities Tasmania, and 24 to the Health and Human Services Department.
Almost half of the complaints to Communities Tasmania were in relation to Housing Tasmania.
Most of the complaints to the Justice Department related to prison services.
The Ombudsman looked at 40 complaints against Tasmania Police.
Members of the public made 76 complaints about their local council and 119 complaints against statutory authorities.
More than half of these complaints were about TasWater.
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