Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 19 January 2022
1254. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice the purpose of the speakup@justice.ie email account; the date upon which the email address was first publicised; the number of emails in the inbox of the email account; the number of emails sent by that email address; and the frequency with which the email account is monitored. [1375/22]
View answerI can advise the Deputy that the purpose of the speakup@justice.ie email account is to provide a dedicated and confidential email address for staff in my Department who require further information about protected disclosures and for those who wish to make a protected disclosure by confidential email.
The speakup@justice.ie was introduced in 2019 as a confidential communication channel for protected disclosure correspondence, and to encourage staff to raise concerns by confidential email. It was first published in the Department’s Protected Disclosures Annual Report for 2019 on 30 June 2020.
Protected disclosures and related queries are also made through other channels and replied to by same. Relevant correspondence in relation to such queries is copied to speakup@justice.ie and does not require a reply from the account.
Emails to speakup@justice.ie are monitored on a daily basis during normal working hours. The number of emails in the inbox of the account is 276, the number of emails in the outbox of the account is 112.
