Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 5 May 2021
449. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the number of staff in his Department that have had access to files and or email restricted and or revoked as part of a disciplinary process or preceding or following a disciplinary process from 1 January 2018 to date in 2021. [22776/21]
View answerCivil servants recruited to my Department are subject to the Civil Service Code of Standards & Behaviour which outlines that in the course of their duties honesty, impartiality and integrity must be paramount.
On commencing duty officials are presented with a suite of documents relating to their employment one of which is an I.C.T. Usage Policy which outlines the conditions they must adhere to in using the Department’s I.T. equipment.
No official at my Department has been subjected to restrictive access to files or had access to email restricted or revoked as part of a disciplinary process in the period stated in the Deputy’s question.
