Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 11 November 2015
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform
General Scheme of a Public Sector Standards Bill: Discussion (Resumed)
2:00 pm
Dr. Elaine Byrne:
I referred to the ethics commissioner in Canada and the Office of the Whistleblower in the United States, which was introduced under the Dodd-Frank Act. My colleagues here have correctly identified that there are perhaps difficulties with fragmentation in terms of who whistleblowers may contact.
I was focused on something more controversial, namely, that whistleblowers would be paid for giving the information. In America, they get a percentage of the fines that are levied on financial institutions for their information.