Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 24 June 2025

Committee on Public Petitions and the Ombudsmen

Engagement with the Office of the Ombudsman

2:00 am

Mr. Ger Deering:

We do deal with complaints from tenants in local authority housing. I appreciate we do not have the same statutory powers as the RTB does in terms of inspection but if we receive complaints about maintenance issues, we engage with whatever local authority is involved to get its explanation. We have had some significant successes in terms of work done for people in certain cases. We do deal with those complaints.