I put it to you that the Speaker of the House Mr Wade Mark ably abetted by the Prime Minister, in having Dr Rowley sent to the Privilege Committee, has contravened Section 42(a) of the Integrity in Public Life Act which says as below:
–An employee of the State...shall not be dismissed, suspended, demoted, disciplined, harassed, denied benefit or otherwise negatively affected because;
(a) He, acting in good faith on the basis of a reasonable belief, has
(1) Notified the Commission that his employer or any other person has contravened or is about to contravene this Act
(2) Done or stated the intention of doing anything that is required to avoid having any person contravene this Act
(b) His employer or any person believes he will do something in paragraph (a).
Dr Rowley, as an employee of the Parliament/State, caused the notification of the Commission of what, in good faith and on the basis of reasonable belief, he considered (via the said e-mails) contravened this Act.Please note that the Act does not require him to provide definitive proof of what the e-mails suggest but simply that he acted in good faith and has a reasonable belief that they are true.
Hence the action of the Speaker and the PM can be viewed as harassment of Dr Rowley and an attempt to have him disciplined and even denied a benefit and he is surely negatively affected.
Victor Darceuil