AIB sets up whistleblower system

AIB has engaged a British charity to provide safeguards for staff who want to disclose wrongdoing in the company while legislation to protect whistleblowers in Ireland has lain on the shelf for more than five years.

The Labour Party is to make a renewed attempt to force the enactment of the Whistleblowers Protection Bill, which it first introduced in 1999.

The Government did not oppose the bill at the time, but has sidelined it since.