Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The final irony is that there is a provision in the Ombudsman Act that if a person does not get a reply to a query within a reasonable period, a complaint can be made to the Ombudsman, but this disease of interminable delays in getting answers now seems to have affected even the Ombudsman. I hope making the public service a better place in which to work will be central to what we are doing. We must work with public servants and ensure that good work practices will dominate, with those who are obstructing progress and a better workplace told that according to the terms of the Croke Park agreement such obstruction will no longer be acceptable.

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