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There was no legal protection for apologies given to patients in Ireland until last year. Louise O’Rourke and Katy Meade look at legal protection for apologies in light of new emphasis on open disclosure and legislative change.

On 16 April 2019, the European Union Parliament adopted the Directive on the Protection of persons reporting on breaches of Union Law (the ““Whistleblowing Directive”).

Welcome to our Summer Newsletter, which we hope you find helpful and interesting. It has been a busy few months here at Hayes. We recently announced the promotion of two new partners – Áine Coghill in our Property department and Katy Meade in our Healthcare department.

With the continued increase in house prices over the past number of years; there has been renewed focus on how this will affect the annual bill faced every year by home owners for Local Property Tax.

In April 2019, the Government presented the Gender Pay Gap Information Bill 2019 to the Dáil.

February 2019 saw the Data Protection Commission publish its first annual report since the introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation on 25 May 2018.