Health whistleblower 'performing valuable public service', says Donohoe

Whistleblowers "have played a very important role in our public life, and in helping us improve how we make public services available to our citizens”, Public Expenditure Minister Paschal Donohoe told the Oireachtas finance committee.

Shane Corr, a senior civil servant at the Department of Health, went public with details of the secret dossiers. Picture: RTÉ Investigates/RTÉ

Department of Health whistleblower Shane Corr is “performing a very valuable public service” in the issues he is raising, Public Expenditure Minister Paschal Donohoe has said.

Mr Corr has been responsible for a number of protected disclosures which emerged in the national media in recent months, highlighting various issues of embarrassment for the Department of Health.