Mairéad Farrell (Galway West, Sinn Fein)
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420. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of protected disclosures made to him concerning his Department and bodies under its aegis in 2018, 2019 and 2020. [59913/21]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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In accordance with Section 22 of the Protected Disclosure Act 2014, my Department has published information on protected disclosures received during 2018, 2019 and 2020 on its website:

www.gov.ie/en/collection/department-of-education-and-skills-protected-disclosures-reports/.

The reports for these years are joint reports with the Department of Education as the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (DFHERIS) did not come into existence until 2020.

To summarise, in 2018, 1 protected disclosure was received from workers in sectors under the remit of DFHERIS. In 2019, 3 protected disclosures were received from workers in these sectors. In 2020, no protected disclosures were received from workers in these sectors.

There were no protected disclosures received from Department staff since the legislation was introduced.