Marc MacSharry (Sligo-Leitrim, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The protected disclosure goes in and alleges whatever it alleges. We send it for an assessment to make sure it is a protected disclosure under the Act. Once that has been determined, it is sent to an external reviewer who is drawn from a panel. He or she operates the review to a set of terms of reference. What the witnesses are saying is that those terms of reference are uniform, be they to the Department of Justice, Seán Ó Foghlú, Secretary General of the Department of Education, or somebody else.