Pat Buckley (Cork East, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

That is one of my concerns, because it is not happening now. It seems that issues in protected disclosures are still not being resolved, whether people go to a Minister or the Minister refers such disclosures to a body such as the Health and Safety Authority, HSA, for example. The response comes back down the line to inform me, as a witness for the whistleblower, that the issues have been resolved. Yet I know from the whistleblower that those issues have not been resolved. Where does the avenue of procedural correction lie in that case? That is where my concerns lie. How do we strengthen and not weaken that aspect? These powers are needed because sometimes it is the internal bodies that should be investigated as well.