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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Developments in the Insurance Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (26 May 2021)

John McGuinness: We will turn to Mr. Bradley.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Developments in the Insurance Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (26 May 2021)

John McGuinness: Mr. Bradley can do that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Protected Disclosure Legislation: Discussion (27 May 2021)

John McGuinness: I welcome members and our guests. We are joined by Mr. John Devitt, Ms Stephanie Casey, Ms Lorraine Heffernan and Dr. Lauren Kierans. Mr. Michael Clifford, the journalist, is also attending. He has experience and plenty of knowledge in this area. The purpose of the meeting is to discuss and set the backdrop to the protected disclosure legislation review that will take place shortly....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Protected Disclosure Legislation: Discussion (27 May 2021)

John McGuinness: I thank Mr. Clifford. Apologies have been received from Deputy Pearse Doherty.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Protected Disclosure Legislation: Discussion (27 May 2021)

John McGuinness: I suggest that the Deputy continues with her questions and we can come back to the issue again.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Protected Disclosure Legislation: Discussion (27 May 2021)

John McGuinness: These questions are open to all our guests.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Protected Disclosure Legislation: Discussion (27 May 2021)

John McGuinness: Does that answer Deputy Farrell's questions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Protected Disclosure Legislation: Discussion (27 May 2021)

John McGuinness: What is the Deputy's question that was not answered?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Protected Disclosure Legislation: Discussion (27 May 2021)

John McGuinness: I understand Ms Casey wants to come in.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Protected Disclosure Legislation: Discussion (27 May 2021)

John McGuinness: Short question, short answer. Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Protected Disclosure Legislation: Discussion (27 May 2021)

John McGuinness: I ask the Deputy to ask his questions. Has he two questions to ask?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Protected Disclosure Legislation: Discussion (27 May 2021)

John McGuinness: Before our guests answer that question, I will add a similar question. In the recent judgment delivered by Mr. Justice Richard Humphreys in the case of John Clarke v. CGI Food Services Limited, and I hope I have read this right, the judge said that the financial repercussions in the case were significant for the employer because the employer must now continue to pay the former employee...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Protected Disclosure Legislation: Discussion (27 May 2021)

John McGuinness: It applies to a particular case rather than a judgment that can be broadly applied.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Protected Disclosure Legislation: Discussion (27 May 2021)

John McGuinness: Is there no law to ensure that a person is paid? A person may have made a protected disclosure and be out sick afterwards. Is the organisation or enterprise not obliged to pay such a person during that time?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Protected Disclosure Legislation: Discussion (27 May 2021)

John McGuinness: Will such a person not be paid when they are out of work? Is it the case that such a person could be paid? Will it be settled at the end? I am talking about the current legislation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Protected Disclosure Legislation: Discussion (27 May 2021)

John McGuinness: No, I have moved away from the Clarke case. I am asking about what Mr. Clifford said earlier. It appeared as if the individual in the Prison Service was awarded a sum but that was challenged later. It just begs the question in all of this of the cost to the whistleblower of having to stay in the process while, at the same time, being penalised and, in some cases, out of a job while the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Protected Disclosure Legislation: Discussion (27 May 2021)

John McGuinness: Earlier, Mr. Devitt was giving analysis of what whistleblowers in the private sector thought of the process and how satisfied or not they were. In the public sector, it seems to be quite different, in that there is free use of taxpayers' money and money paid into the State to defend the entity, whether a Department, an agency or a third level institution, whatever it might be. It is this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Protected Disclosure Legislation: Discussion (27 May 2021)

John McGuinness: Will all of the witnesses be making a submission on the new Bill?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Protected Disclosure Legislation: Discussion (27 May 2021)

John McGuinness: Will separate submissions be made by the witnesses or will there be a submission in the name of Transparency International Ireland? I ask the same question of Mr. Clifford. Will he put on record for consideration in the context of the Bill his experience and what he might recommend?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Protected Disclosure Legislation: Discussion (27 May 2021)

John McGuinness: That research is reflecting on the current legislation and how the proposed legislation can be improved.