Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)

I want to raise what has become a hardy annual, namely, the Whistleblowers Protection Bill, which is scheduled to go to committee since 1999. Only the ground rent Bill is longer awaiting passage in the House. I ask the Taoiseach for clarification on this matter because, in the last session, Members of the Government gave two contradictory views, namely, that they were not continuing with the stand-alone Bill, they would incorporate it into individual Bills, but when an amendment to an individual Bill was submitted, we were told it would be part of a stand-alone Bill. What is the Government's position on the issue?

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