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.

A disciplinary hearing had been set for Monday involving Mr Corr and the department’s HR function. Mr Corr may attend with a union representative or a fellow civil servant, but is not allowed to bring legal representation.

He had requested the hearing be delayed by a further two weeks in order to give him more time to prepare, a request the department denied, citing the fact Mr Corr had been given notice regarding the action in February of this year.

The department has assented, however, to moving the hearing from its headquarters at Miesian Plaza in Dublin to a “neutral venue”, after Mr Corr indicated he would not feel comfortable attending there.

The department insisted there is no reason for Mr Corr to feel ill at ease attending its headquarters as the hearing "is a disciplinary meeting, not an adversarial process”.

Mr Corr, 53, 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...

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