Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The whistleblowers legislation - the Protected Disclosures Act 2014 - lays out clear procedures for Departments to take in respect of protected disclosures. There are three whistleblowers and one in particular made protected disclosures to the Department of Defence and the then Minister, Deputy Coveney, regarding public health concerns at Baldonnel Airport and the workshops at the facility in which people were exposed to toxic chemicals. These were most serious and grave health issues and revelations. The whistleblower concerned was very anxious to ascertain whether the Minister could confirm that he had received his protected disclosure in 2015 and could not get confirmation of that. Indeed he went through the Chief Whip, Deputy Regina Doherty, to get access to the Minister to get him to confirm that he had received the protected disclosure. The texts of his messages to the Chief Whip have been revealed in the Irish Examiner. I pay tribute to Joe Logue who has written a series of articles on this matter. This is very good investigative journalism.

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