Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 1 October 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions

Role and Functions: Office of the Ombudsman

4:50 pm

Mr. Peter Tyndall:

We have good links with officials in the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and we have raised many of these issues with them so they will not be surprised by what was said here today. To be fair, we have had a very good engagement with them and the Minister has encouraged them to pick up on some of these issues. As I said earlier, it is not about people saying no on these points; it is just a question of continuing to advance them. Some of these things can be achieved by administrative means and quite quickly, others will require change over time. Constitutional change, as the Chairman knows, would be a very major issue and would require a referendum, whereas some of the other items could be done tomorrow. So progress on all of them will be variable, but I am grateful to the Chairman for keeping a-----

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