Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 6 December 2012
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions
Decisions on Public Petitions Received
12:05 pm
Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source
I feel like I am in a time warp. I agree with Senator Ó Clochartaigh. It is right and proper that the committee should inform people of the different avenues available to them. In this case they are the Financial Services Ombudsman and the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, given its deliberations on the Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill and how these may affect the concerns that Mr. Ó Dálaigh has raised. Equally, it is important that the petition is not closed because we are the last chance saloon for people who cannot get satisfaction from other agencies. Mr. Ó Dálaigh should have the opportunity to come back here if he does not get a satisfactory response or outcome from the avenues we have suggested.
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