Health whistleblower Corr faces disciplinary hearing 

Shane Corr, a senior civil servant at the Department of Health, went public in 2021, a year after making a protected disclosure, with allegations the Department of Health had compiled dossiers concerning children with disabilities to use as leverage in defending court actions. Picture: RTÉ Investigates/RTÉ

A Department of Health whistleblower who exposed a controversial State “strategy” to deny people reparations for nursing home overpayments faces a disciplinary hearing, and possible dismissal, next week.

Shane Corr, an auditor with the department’s finance section, has been suspended from duty since May 2022 following the leaking of a number of recordings of departmental meetings which suggested wholesale problems with the finances of the HSE.