Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 23 September 2025

Committee on Public Petitions and the Ombudsmen

Engagement with the Office of the Ombudsman for the Defence Forces

2:00 am

Mr. Justice Alan Mahon:

The investigators within the Defence Forces are officers. If you bring a complaint into their internal system, an officer will do the investigation. There are huge efforts and great improvements in recent times in their training. I do not think they got any training in the past, or not much. There is a complete change. It will take a little bit of time to see the results of that.