Brendan Howlin
Question:73 Mr. Howlin asked the Minister for Transport the reasons for his delay in extending whistleblowing legislation to all transport sectors here. [30052/06]
View answerThursday, 28 September 2006
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Section 54 of the Railway Safety Act 2005 provides for staff of a railway undertaking or a person working under contract of services with a railway undertaking to inform the Railway Safety Commission of any information relevant to an investigation of a railway incident or of any risk to the railway in terms of its staff and passengers arising from the operations of the undertaking. The Act also provides that the member of staff cannot be disciplined or disadvantaged in any way following the provision of such information.
Directive 2003/42/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 June 2003 on occurrence reporting in civil aviation includes an option for Member States to develop a confidential reporting system. Work is under way to transpose this Directive into Irish law. I have no further proposals at present in relation to whistleblowing legislation.
Question No. 74 answered with QuestionNo. 22.
Question No. 75 answered with QuestionNo. 20.