As required under Section 22 of the Protected Disclosure Act 2014, my Department publishes an annual report not later than the 30th June each year setting out the number of protected disclosures made to it in the course of the immediately preceding year and certain other information relating to any such protected disclosures. The reports for my Department for the years 2019 and 2020 are available here: www.gov.ie/en/organisation-information/820e9-policy-on-disclosure-of-wrongdoing-in-the-workplace/. The report for 2021 will be published shortly.
For the Deputy's convenience, the requested information in respect of the number of protected disclosures made to my Department under the Protected Disclosures Act during the specified period is set out in the table below.
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Year
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Number of submissions received
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Number accepted as a Protected Disclosure
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2019
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2
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1
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2020
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2
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0
|
|
2021
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0
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0
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2022 (to date)
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0
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0
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For the Deputy's information, I am informed that the submission which was accepted as constituting a Protected Disclosure, was processed in accordance with my Department's Policy on Disclosure of Wrongdoing in the Workplace and the matter was not referred for consideration by a third party. No evidence was identified of any wrongdoing having occurred in this case.
