Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

For clarification, we are inserting a legal mechanism to protect whistleblowers. Anybody who sees wrongdoing should be able to blow the whistle. The idea is that those in the workplace should not be vulnerable to retribution. If one is not in the workplace, however, it does not mean that one should not be a whistleblower. Volunteers cannot be fired so they do not need the protection of labour laws. That is the international position.