Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 29 June 2023
Committee on Public Petitions
Ombudsman for the Defence Forces Annual Report 2021: Office of the Ombudsman for the Defence Forces
Mr. Justice Alan Mahon:
I do not really have an answer. If there was an own motion entitlement, perhaps an ombudsman could examine the Air Crops and see if there is. It is difficult to know. The Air Corps has a lot of promotion competitions and does a lot of courses because many of its personnel are very high tech. Many of the complaints I have got, going back over the years, relate to promotion and courses. I imagine that, for that reason, there is a disproportionate number coming from the Air Corps. There is no obvious sign, to me, to suggest that there is anything particularly different about the Air Corps, other than that it involves very high-tech people and there are a lot of courses and promotions, which would give rise to more complaints.
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