Liam Twomey (Wexford, Fine Gael)

Does the Minister envisage a whistleblowing section for this legislation so that if a pharmacist felt that what he or she was doing within a corporation was wrong, he or she could complain privately to the PSI that he or she was being asked to do something he or she felt was inappropriate? Could the PSI deal with this in a preventative fashion rather than sanction the pharmacist who made the complaint? Could the PSI root out bad practice whereby somebody could make an anonymous complaint, as envisaged in whistleblowing legislation, so that we can improve standards? As the Minister points out throughout this legislation——

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