Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 11 July 2024

Committee on Public Petitions

Office of the Ombudsman Annual Report 2022 and Related Matters: Discussion

1:30 pm

Mr. Ger Deering:

On what Deputy Buckley was saying, there would have to be a Government decision for Uisce Éireann to be brought within our remit. That is not something we can do ourselves.

I was remiss when the Chair asked me what the committee can do. The other place it could help is for prisoners to have access to our complaints mechanism. We have done a lot of work with the Department of Justice. We believe all that is required at this stage is a statutory instrument from the Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform to allow prisoners to access us. That is somewhere we would welcome the support of the committee as well.

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