Received
Decided
Refused
Request Reference 22-146
Requester Type Member of the Public
Department of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation

A copy of the "terms of reference independently provided by D/PER in 2014- 15.". These refer to the manner and conduct of an Internal Audit into a Government Department, with particular reference to a protected disclosure. As I have discovered, the investigation into my Protected Disclosure, to the Minister for Social Protection, excluded the specific documents that related to the disclosure. In the public interest, I require the terms of reference that enables the Internal Audit function to exclude evidence from an investigation.