{"id":447605,"date":"2025-09-24T05:31:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T05:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/447605\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T05:31:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T05:31:18","slug":"more-than-a-month-after-being-asked-for-its-whistleblowing-policy-ni-water-still-cant-produce-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/447605\/","title":{"rendered":"More than a month after being asked for its whistleblowing policy, NI Water still can\u2019t produce it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Veteran MLA raises concerns about \u201cbizarre\u201d response to basic query from the Belfast Telegraph\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sara Venning, chief executive of NI Water\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/407228_Sara_Venning.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Sara Venning, chief executive of NI Water<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">More than a month after being asked for a copy of its whistleblowing policy, NI Water has been unable to produce it \u2013 despite trumpeting the document to Stormont.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The publicly-funded utility\u2019s treatment of whistleblowers is under scrutiny after it claimed to have fully investigated corruption allegations made by a contractor, many of which it later transpired had not been examined \u2013 and then the longstanding contractor was dumped by NI Water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Veteran MLA raises concerns about \u201cbizarre\u201d response to basic query from the Belfast Telegraph Sara Venning, chief executive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[84491,1435,108876,1144,118697,6410,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-447605","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-department-for-infrastructure","9":"tag-liz-kimmins","10":"tag-ni-water","11":"tag-northern-ireland","12":"tag-patsy-mcglone","13":"tag-sam-mcbride","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115257638419025125","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}