Ill treatment of health whistleblower shows little appetite to remedy public service  

After the seismic disclosures about the Department of Health by whistleblower Shane Corr, the only person to suffer anything approaching a consequence was Mr Corr himself

Whistleblower Shane Corr, a senior civil servant at the Department of Health, has been suspended since his disclosures about the department. Picture: RTÉ Investigates/RTÉ

The Department of Health has had a torrid few months.

Between the furore over the ill-fated secondment of chief medical officer Tony Holohan to Trinity College and more recently the controversy regarding the ownership of the new national maternity hospital, the department has been fighting fires on what feels like a constant basis.