Written answers

Tuesday, 24 June 2025

Department of Education and Skills

Departmental Reports

Photo of Richard Boyd BarrettRichard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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401. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for a full list of all documents, reports, strategies, and resources that have been “unpublished” by her Department over the past ten years (details supplied), including all such materials that have been “unpublished” by divisions, sections and units of her Department that became part of the Minister’s Department following a transfer of functions; and who “unpublished” the materials under a different Minister or Department. [33804/25]

Photo of Helen McEnteeHelen McEntee (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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I can confirm that the Department of Education and Youth does not systematically ‘unpublish’ documents, reports, strategies or resources.

The article the Deputy has supplied refers to a technical issue affecting some links on Gov.ie, resulting from a major system upgrade completed in April 2025.

The Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (OGCIO) manages Gov.ie and completed the system upgrade.

During the migration of content to the new system, some links became broken and were replaced with the text, 'Item has been unpublished or removed', rather than returning an error. The items were not in fact ‘unpublished’.

The department is committed to the open publication of government information and is working to ensure that all affected links on the Gov.ie pages it manages are restored and working correctly.

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