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

I move amendment No. 5:

In page 10, to delete lines 10 and 11.

This amendment hinges on the issue of substantially true versus reasonable belief. To cut to the chase, reasonable belief is a sufficient threshold for this legislation. To ratchet that up to substantially true places an undue burden on the person coming forward as the whistleblower and is unnecessarily high. The kind of prudent approach is already captured in the concept of reasonable belief which is expressed throughout the legislation. That is the rationale for tabling both amendments.