Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 23 March 2023
Committee on Public Petitions
Engagement with European Ombudsman
Cormac Devlin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
I thank Ms O'Reilly. In keeping with that theme, I am continuing to refer to chapter 6 of the annual report, and specifically the table setting out the "Subject matter of inquiries closed by the European Ombudsman in 2021". Ms O'Reilly talked about recruitment being one of those elements. The table sets out that 29% of complaints are on transparency and accountability, 26% are on culture of service, 10% are on recruitment and 1.3% are on public participation in EU decision-making. It strikes me that there was just one complaint regarding whistleblowing, which is quite low. It accounts for 0.3% of the overall cases closed. Maybe there are still open cases dealing with whistleblowing. Given the volume of organisations Ms O'Reilly is dealing with - she mentioned recruitment - I would have thought it would have been a bit higher than 0.3%. Is whistleblowing not a very large element of the complaints?
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