Peadar Tóibín
Question:372. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Defence the number of protected disclosures made to his Department in each of the past five years and to date in 2021. [29630/21]
View answerTuesday, 1 June 2021
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The following table sets out the number of protected disclosures received from 2016 to date.
|
Year |
Number of disclosures |
|
2016 |
2 |
|
2017 |
11 |
|
2018 |
4 |
|
2019 |
4 |
|
2020 |
12 |
|
2021 (as of 27th May) |
9 |
This figure relates to all Protected Disclosures which have made been made both to the Department and to the Defence Forces.
In accordance with the terms of section 22 of the Protected Disclosures Act 2014 an annual report in relation to the total number of protected disclosures made in the preceding year is prepared and published on the departmental website www.defence.ie/what-we-do/protected-disclosures. The report for 2020 is being prepared.