Mr. Peter Tyndall:

In general, I prefer a simplification of the ombudsman landscape, rather than having many ombudsmen, even within the same office. It is possible to have specialists within one's office who deal with particular areas. Members are probably aware that we recruited some people with a specific health background, but the experience is often that the pressures of the day are driven by current events. Coming up to the leaving certificate, we will get a lot of casework around education, for example. If we had to have a team in education that was big enough to deal with that, it would spend other parts of the year not very busy. Having the flexibility in general works better than having too much-----