Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

The amendments to various Acts provided for in this Schedule will simply ensure a discloser or whistleblower is given the generally stronger protections that are available under this legislation. At the same time, they will ensure the protections available in the sectoral Acts will be unaffected in the unlikely event that the disclosure does not fall within the meaning of this legislation. We are not dislodging the sectoral protections that were built up and inserted in legislation over the years. We are superimposing on top of them the stronger protections of this Bill.