IRELAND’S WHISTLEBLOWING REGIME TO BE STRENGTHENED BY EU DIRECTIVE
April 1st, 2019
IRELAND’S whistleblowing regime is to be strengthened to comply with a new European Union (EU) whistleblowing directive that was approved in April (2019) by the European Parliament. Reforms must be in place by 2021 and will build on Ireland’s Protected Disclosures Act 2014 - itself a step forward legally for Irish whistleblowing, according to Professor Kate Kenny, of the National University of Ireland, Galway (NUI). She has just authored a book ‘Whistleblowing: Towards a New Theory’, which says that culturally and socially much remains to be done to ...
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