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OPPOSITION PARTIES have strongly backed the call from Director of Public Prosecutions James Hamilton for legislation to protect whistleblowers in cases of alleged white-collar crime.

Labour’s spokesman on justice Pat Rabbitte has urged the Government to accept his party’s proposed legislation, the Whistleblowers Protection Bill 2010, currently on the Dáil order paper.