Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 14 May 2014

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform

Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Committee Stage

3:20 pm

Photo of Mary Lou McDonaldMary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The Minister might deal with the concern about the conditionality explicit in the legislation, step by step, where somebody comes forward. What will happen?

The point I want to raise is related but slightly different. The Minister has said one of the changes he made, in addition to removing the good faith notion, was related to the public interest notion. I notice that is not the case in respect of An Garda Síochána. Not alone may the investigation be made, the provision also provides for it to happen if it appears to it to be desirable in the public interest.

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