Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 30 September 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions

Office of the Ombudsman Reports: Mr. Peter Tyndall

4:00 pm

Photo of Trevor Ó ClochartaighTrevor Ó Clochartaigh (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

It is a good initiative. According to the Ombudsman's findings, people are afraid to complain because they believe nothing will change if they complain, and they find it difficult to discover how to complain, which is not a positive view of the complaints mechanism in our health system. Will the new hospital trusts which are being set up automatically fall under the Ombudsman's remit as new entities?

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