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Sanctions for disclosure breaches in the public service over the last two years have been limited to only one dismissal.
“Only a single dismissal has thus far been reported in the public service over the last 2 years.”
Across the entire public service, only one dismissal for disclosure related issues has occurred in the last two years.
“There has literally across the entire public service only been one dismissal in the last two years.”
Current sanctions for false or incomplete disclosures rarely involve criminal or strong disciplinary action, thereby limiting deterrence.
“Currently we do not have any kind of criminal or strong disciplinary sanctions for if we do find some kind of violation. You would just send that to a disciplinary process. So in effect you have very little persuasive measures to deter people from submitting false disclosures.”
A disciplinary process may be triggered if false statements are made on disclosure forms, leading potentially to criminal conduct investigation.
“If you were to lie on your disclosure form, perhaps the worst that can happen to you is that you go through a disciplinary process and it might trigger an investigation coming out of that to start looking into the criminal conduct.”