Written answers

Tuesday, 7 December 2021

Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht

Protected Disclosures

Photo of Mairead FarrellMairead Farrell (Galway West, Sinn Fein)
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225. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of protected disclosures made to her concerning her Department and bodies under its aegis in 2018, 2019 and 2020. [59921/21]

Photo of Catherine MartinCatherine Martin (Dublin Rathdown, Green Party)
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I refer the Deputy to my reply to Parliamentary Question No. 304 of 1st June last.

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.The reports for my Department are available here: www.gov.ie/en/organisation-information/58aa8-disclosure-of-wrongdoing-in-the-workplace/

For the Deputy's convenience, the requested information in respect of the number of protected disclosures made to my Department under the Protected Disclosures Act during the specified period is set out in the table below.

Year Number of submissions received Number accepted as a Protected Disclosure
2018 0 0
2019 2 1
2020 2 0
For the Deputy's information, I am informed that the submission which was accepted as constituting a Protected Disclosure, was processed in accordance with my Department's Policy on Disclosure of Wrongdoing in the Workplace and the matter was not referred for consideration by a third party. No evidence was identified of any wrongdoing having occurred in this case.

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