Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 18:

In page 18, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following:“Amendments of Garda Síochána Act 2005
19.(1) The Garda Síochána Act 2005 is amended—

(a) by inserting the following section after section 102:

“Protected disclosures relating to the Garda Síochána
102A.(1) If the Ombudsman Commission is prescribed under section 7of the Protected Disclosures Act 2014in respect of disclosures relating to the Garda Síochána, it may, if it appears to it desirable in the public interest to do so, investigate any disclosure so relating that is made to it, even if the worker (within the meaning of that Act) making the disclosure is a member of the Garda Síochána.
(2) The provisions of this Part relating to investigations and reports apply with the necessary modifications in relation to a relevant wrongdoing to which a disclosure referred to in subsection (1) relates as though it were the subject of a complaint referred to in section 91.”,
and

(b) by repealing section 124.

(2) The Garda Síochána (Confidential Reporting of Corruption or Malpractice) Regulations 2007 (S.I. No. 168 of 2007) are revoked.”.”.