Michael D'Arcy (Wexford, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

No, we are satisfied that the legislation is sufficient to allow the ombudsman to investigate. What I am saying is that there is a matter of discretion on the part of the ombudsman's that he has to date chosen not to investigate any of these. We can only give the ombudsman the authority to do so but we cannot explicitly instruct him or her to do so.