Mr. William Beausang:

The protected disclosures legislation is complex. The reality is that when one looks at disclosures, it is only when a decision is made in a third-party process and someone has made a protected disclosure and is penalised on that basis that one formally knows that a protected disclosure has been made. All the public service policies are built around an assessment being carried out when the disclosure is made, whether it should be treated like a protected disclosure.