John Kelly (Labour)

Governments have always been great for telling us why they are doing things. The Government looks across the Irish Sea and says it is doing something because the British are doing it. Now the British are doing this so I suggest some research is done into how effective the whistleblowing legislation is there. Has it saved money? It has to be worthwhile to pay a whistleblower €100,000 or €150,000 if he or she saves the Exchequer tens of millions of euro. We should not rule it out. I appreciate that the Minister of State thinks ten years imprisonment might deter much of this.