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

Photo of Martin BrowneMartin Browne (Tipperary, Sinn Fein)
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In 2020, the then Ombudsman, Mr. Peter Tyndall, was dealing with complaints about water services. Irish Water, or Uisce Éireann as it is now known, was set up to take control of this. We see boil-water notices daily, and there are places with water outages, etc., for months. There is frustration among the public and ourselves. We have a direct line to the organisation, trying to get answers. Is it something that should be brought back under the Ombudsman, as it was before, where there is a direct line there?