Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 29 September 2021
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
General Scheme of the Protected Disclosures (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion
Mr. Séamus Clarke:
There has been one celebrated case in the High Court in respect of protected disclosures, but there has not been a great rush of cases before the higher courts. There have been a number of cases before the Workplace Relations Commission. I do not have the data to hand but others, particularly Transparency International Ireland, have produced reports in which they discuss the number of cases before the Workplace Relations Commission. What is noteworthy is there have not been many successful cases among all the cases that have been brought. Others might know the exact numbers but there have been no more than five, six or seven in the superior courts.
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