S.I. No. 448/2015 - Protected Disclosures Act 2014 (Disclosure to Prescribed Persons) Order 2015.

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of 23rd October, 2015.

I, BRENDAN HOWLIN, Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 7 (2) of the Protected Disclosures Act 2014 (No. 14 of 2014), hereby order as follows:

1. This Order may be cited as the Protected Disclosures Act 2014 (Disclosure to Prescribed Persons) Order 2015.

2. The Schedule to the Protected Disclosures Act 2014 (Section 7(2)) Order 2014 ( S.I. No. 339 of 2014 ) is amended—

(a) by deleting the matter in columns (2) and (3) at reference number 18,

(b) by substituting for the matter in column (3) at reference number 68 the following:

“(a) All matters relating to the supervision of the Ethics in Public Office Acts 1995 and 2001 in so far as they apply to specified persons and to members of the Oireachtas who are not office holders, within the meaning of those Acts, including investigations and reports in relation to possible contraventions of those Acts.

(b) All matters relating to the supervision of the Electoral Acts 1992 to 2014 in regard to—

(i) the disclosure of donations to political parties, members of the Oireachtas, members of the European Parliament, and candidates at elections to Dáil Éireann, Seanad Éireann and the European Parliament,

(ii) the obligations of third parties,

(iii) the obligations of corporate donors,

(iv) the monitoring of limitations on expenditure by election candidates and political parties, and

(v) the expenditure of Exchequer Funding received by qualified political parties.

(c) All matters relating to the supervision of the Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Act 2014 (No 6 of 2014) in regard to the expenditure of funding (Parliamentary Activities Allowances) received by the leaders of qualified political parties and by independent members of the Oireachtas.”,

and

(c) by inserting after reference number 72 the following:

“

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GIVEN under my Official Seal,

19 October 2015.

BRENDAN HOWLIN,

Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation).

This Order amends S.I. No. 339 of 2014 , which prescribes persons to whom a protected disclosure may be made under section 7(2) of the Protected Disclosures Act 2014 . This Order makes the following amendments to S.I. No. 339 of 2014 :

— Deletion of the Secretary General of the Department of Education and Skills from the list.

— Amendment of the description of the matters in respect of which the Secretary to the Standards in Public Office Commission is prescribed.

— Addition of the Director of the Commission for Public Service Appointments to the list of prescribed persons.