Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 16 February 2023
Committee on Public Petitions
Office of the Ombudsman Annual Report 2021: Office of the Ombudsman
Mr. Ger Deering:
I will let Ms Hanrahan answer that.
The Deputy has shown quite an interest in our special reports. The work we do in terms of dealing with complaints is very important, but it is especially important for the individual who has made the complaint. The special reports have a broad benefit. They benefit people who will never have made them into our office or may never even have known about our office. For that reason, I am very heavily committed to the reports that were done by my predecessors. Ms Hanrahan can list them for the Deputy.
We do not just do a report and move on; we continually monitor the previous reports and keep updating ourselves and asking bodies to update us until we are satisfied that all of the recommendations have been implemented. Ms Hanrahan might mention Learning to Get Better and those kinds of reports, in terms of the benefits they bring to the HSE and so on. I will leave the question on pensions and special reports to Ms Hanrahan.
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