Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)

The Tánaiste is not the Taoiseach. Nuala O'Loan is the Ombudsman. People fall ill constantly and work continues. We can deal with that.

The reason we believe strongly in the model presented for a single ombudsman is that Nuala O'Loan's model has been proven to work whereas the Minister's model has not been shown to work. If he gave us examples of where a model in the same structure has been shown to work we will examine it. I hope I will be proven wrong and the Minister proven right because at the end of the day we need a proper complaints procedure but what we have had is a debacle. The Garda Complaints Board was one of the worst State bodies ever visited upon the people of this country.

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