The Commission of Inquiry into institutional child sexual abuse in Tasmania intended to issue misconduct notices to seven public servants who are still employed in the state service.
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Labor has continued to take the government to task on the identities of 22 public servants that the commission wanted to make adverse findings about but were unable to due to legal intervention.
Justice Department secretary Ginna Webster has revealed that the commission had informed the department in April that it intended to issue 17 misconduct notices to state service employees.
She stressed that none of these workers were alleged to have committed child sexual abuse.
Ms Webster said eight of these workers had since left the public service and seven remained employed.
It is understood that six of these workers are not in the workplace and the other does not work with children.
Labor leader Rebecca White in parliament asked Premier Jeremy Rockliff why it had taken so long for this information to be revealed.
"How do you plan to rebuild trust when for the past two and a half months you've been stonewalling any attempts to get answers about these individuals?" she said.
Mr Rockliff referred to the assessment process being undertaken by state agencies to determine whether anyone named in the inquiry or issued with a notice had breached the state service code of conduct and deserved a sanction.
"No stone will be left unturned when it comes to these matters and those people that have failed children will be held to account," he said.
Political reporter for Australian Community Media, based in Hobart.
Political reporter for Australian Community Media, based in Hobart.
