Ms Oonagh McPhillips:

In regard to the Department and the Irish Prison Service, which are taken as one in terms of internal audit unit, since the coming into force of the Act up to the end of April, there have been 39 potential disclosures. On investigation, not all disclosures turn out to be disclosures. One has to apply the test in the Act. Only ten of the 39 disclosures are disclosures that are relevant to either the Department or the Irish Prison Service and the remaining 29 are either not for the Department or they are not a protected disclosure in that they are not from an employee or people named under the Act. Of those ten, six have been investigated and the investigation is closed, two are ongoing and two have not yet commenced.