Gerard Craughwell (Independent) | Oireachtas source

The FSPO does not see a role for itself in forming the policy. It is one thing for those of us who are representing the services I am talking about, or for the services' representative bodies themselves, to bring forward requests for policy change, etc. We can produce all of the empirical evidence we want but at the end of the day it is empirical evidence coming from our side rather than from an independent body. The ombudsman's office, however, is fortunate enough to be regarded as having the highest level of independence. From that point of view-----