Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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97. To ask the Taoiseach his Department's policy on dealing with whistleblower complaints. [52610/17]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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The Protected Disclosures Act 2014 provides a robust statutory framework within which employees can raise concerns regarding potential wrongdoing that has come to their attention in the workplace in the knowledge that they can avail of significant employment and other protections if they are penalised by their employer or suffer any detriment for doing so.

The Act requires every public body to establish and maintain procedures for dealing with protected disclosures and to provide written information relating to these procedures to their employees.

In line with the Act, my Department has a Policy on Protected Disclosures which sets out the process by which an employee can make a disclosure, what will happen when a disclosure is made, and what my Department will do to protect a discloser.