Ms Josephine Feehily:

I was reflecting on the question about the ombudsman. It is not the only sector. There is a public service ombudsman, there is GSOC and there are ombudsmen in lots of sectors. Usually oversight is from these Houses. It is not usual for an ombudsman. That is not to say that the external oversight body would not have a view on how complaints might be handled, channelled and so on as part of the logistics of complaints but as regards the decisions of an ombudsman, normally the oversight comes to them from the Oireachtas. I was just puzzling it out there.