Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 9 March 2021

Committee on Public Petitions

Irish Ombudsman Forum: Discussion

Mr. Peter Tyndall:

I thank the Deputy. I know he has a particular interest in international matters because my colleague in Poland, Adam Bodnar, frequently mentions the Deputy's engagement with him.

I wanted to come back to the point I was making earlier about some sense of finality. The Ombudsman is a quasi-judicial role. Ordinarily, in a quasi-judicial role, the follow-up, if there is to be one, is about any matters of law that are subject to judicial review. The sense that people can try to find different routes is not helpful. There needs to be clarity and finality. That is the role of this. The purpose of a memorandum of understanding would be to make sure that appropriate complaints went to the appropriate place.

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