Dr Lauren Kierans has co-authored an article with Prof Kate Kenny of NUI Galway for RTÉ Brainstorm entitled, ‘Can organisations be kept honest during the pandemic?’.

    Wednesday, June 3, 2020 - 10:45

    Dr Lauren Kierans has co-authored an article with Prof Kate Kenny of NUI Galway for RTÉ Brainstorm entitled, ‘Can organisations be kept honest during the pandemic? This article explores the necessity to support genuine whistleblowers to play a vital role in stopping organisations engaging in fraud and wrongdoing during Covid-19. It highlights the deficiencies of the legal protection for whistleblowers under the Protected Disclosures Act 2014 and examines the potential for improvement when the EU Whistleblowers Directive is transposed into national law by December 2021.
     
    Dr Kierans and Professor Kenny will both be speaking at the virtual symposium ‘EU Whistleblowers Directive: Transposition Imperatives for Ireland’ hosted by the Irish Whistleblowing Law Society, in conjunction with Maynooth University Department of Law, tomorrow, 3 June. This is the first of a series of symposiums on the EU Whistleblowers Directive leading up to its transposition and will address key issues required to ensure the best transposition possible in Ireland. 
     
    Link to article: https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2020/0526/1142701-organisations-whistleblowing-fraud-wrongdoing-coronavirus-/