WHISTLEBLOWERS MUST HAVE FULL LEGAL PROTECTIONS – MCCALLION

SINN Fein’s Elisha McCallion has voiced Sinn Féin’s support for a Department of the Economy proposal to extend protections for whistleblowers to disclose corruption and illegality to MPs in the north of Ireland.

The Foyle MP said: “Citizens should be encouraged and protected from persecution or fear of dismissal in exposing illegality and corruption.

“For government and public services have the full confidence of the public, transparency, honesty and openness must be at their core.”