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Tuesday, 1 June 2021

Department of Defence

Protected Disclosures

Photo of Peadar TóibínPeadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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372. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of protected disclosures made to his Department in each of the past five years and to date in 2021. [29630/21]

Photo of Simon CoveneySimon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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The following table sets out the number of protected disclosures received from 2016 to date.

Year Number of disclosures
2016 2
2017 11
2018 4
2019 4
2020 12
2021 (as of 27th May) 9
This figure relates to all Protected Disclosures which have made been made both to the Department and to the Defence Forces.

In accordance with the terms of section 22 of the Protected Disclosures Act 2014 an annual report in relation to the total number of protected disclosures made in the preceding year is prepared and published on the departmental website www.defence.ie/what-we-do/protected-disclosures. The report for 2020 is being prepared.

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