One whistleblower’s experience of official Ireland does not bode well for protected disclosures generally
The long and painful saga of the McCabe Tribunals suggests so, offering disturbing evidence of the antagonism whistleblowers may suffer for stepping forward. So does the more recent, if different experience of Mark MacGann, the Irish-born “Uber Files” whistleblower, who leaked company records in 2022.
At worst, it raises concerns about how serious Ireland is about rocking the foreign direct investment boat, or sending signals that it is willing to investigate powerful technology companies embedded here. Even if it was found that Irish law and regulation would not apply to Uber Files disclosures, as the lobbying regulator here“You can look at the Irish Government, then and now.
While the Irish transposition is praised for its broad spectrum of protected disclosures and for allowing injured third parties to take legal actions, it offers only qualified compensation for whistleblowers and is “regressive” in weakening previous 2014 protections. Still, it is among the strongest in the EU.
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