Meath County Council is committed to preserving the highest standards of honesty, transparency, probity and accountability, and recognises that councillors and employees play a key role in achieving these aims.

Meath County Council is committed to a child-centred approach to our work with children in the delivery of all our services and activities.

Part 15 of the Local Government Act 2001 sets out an ethics framework specific to councillors, managers and employees, and is applicable generally across all areas of the council’s work. This framework imposes a statutory duty on all in the service to maintain proper standards of integrity, conduct and concern for the public interest.

The Protected Disclosures Act 2014 is intended to provide a robust statutory framework within which workers can raise concerns regarding potential wrongdoing that has come to their attention in the workplace, in the knowledge that protections are available to them from any form of penalisation from doing so.

All public bodies in Ireland have a responsibility to promote equality, prevent discrimination and protect the human rights of their employees, customers, service users, and everyone affected by their policies and plans. 

Meath County Council supports a culture of innovation in the way it works and delivers public services.

Section 6(4) of the Regulation of Lobbying Act 2015 requires each public body to publish a list of designated Public Officials of the body.

The purpose of this list is:

1. To allow members of the public to identify those persons who are designated public officials; and
2. As a resource for lobbyists filing a return to the Register who may need to source a designated public official’s details.

Further information in relation to the Regulation of Lobbying Act 2015 is available at www.lobbying.ie

Designated Public Officials in Meath County Council

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