Written answers
Tuesday, 8 March 2022
Department of Education and Skills
Protected Disclosures
Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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355. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of protected disclosures received by her Department in each of the years 2019 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form; if an external contractor has been engaged regarding a protected disclosure over that time period; if so, the cost of same; and the number of protected disclosures that were rejected, accepted and that remain under review for the time period in question. [13048/22]
Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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The following table gives a breakdown by year since 2019 of the number of applications made to me under Section 8 of the Protected Disclosures Act, 2014, the number that were rejected, accepted and that remain under review/ongoing for the time period in question.
Year | Applications Received | Protected Disclosures Rejected | Protected Disclosures Accepted | Protected Disclosures that remain under review/ongoing | Number of Protected Disclosures where an external contractor has been engaged |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 |
| 2021 | 9 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 0 |
| To date in 2022 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| Total | 23 | 7 | 16 | 9 | 0 |
There have been a total of 23 applications for protected disclosures made for the period in question. This figure relates to protected disclosures that were made under Section 8 of the Protected Disclosures Act 2014 by workers in the education sector. There were no applications in which an external contractor was engaged regarding a protected disclosure over that time.
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