Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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58. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of protected disclosures received by her Department in each of the years 2017 to 2020 and to date in 2021; the number that were accepted as a protected disclosure; the number that were in part or fully examined by a third party or consultancy; the number of protected disclosures under investigation over this period; and the number that were finalised and the contents accepted and acted on. [16040/21]

Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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59. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of protected disclosures received by her Department in each of the years 2017 to 2020 and to date in 2021 from officials within her Department; the number of officials who made protected disclosures over the period and who are now not working in her Department; and the number of protected disclosures received from retired officials of her Department over the period. [16058/21]

Catherine Martin (Dublin Rathdown, Green Party)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 58 and 59 together.

As required under Section 22 of the Protected Disclosure Act 2014 my Department publishes an annual report setting out the number of protected disclosures made to it in the course of the immediately preceding year and certain other information relating to any such protected disclosures.

I can confirm to the Deputy that no protected disclosures have been received from officials within my Department or from any retired officials of my Department during the period in question.

The requested information in respect of submissions made to my Department under the Protected Disclosures Act during the period in question is set out in the table below. For the Deputy's convenience I can confirm that both submissions that were accepted as constituting Protected Disclosures, were processed in accordance with my Department's Policy on Disclosure of Wrongdoing in the Workplace and that in neither case was the matters referred for consideration by a third party or consultancy. No evidence was identified of any wrongdoing having occurred in either case.