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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Role and Functions: Pensions Ombudsman (24 Sep 2014)

Susan O'Keeffe: It might be less expensive.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Role and Functions: Pensions Ombudsman (24 Sep 2014)

Susan O'Keeffe: If the legislation comes through as it ought to, will the ombudsman's office be ready?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Role and Functions: Pensions Ombudsman (24 Sep 2014)

Susan O'Keeffe: Mr. Kenny spoke of the arms of the State and the renaming of the British and Irish Ombudsman Association. Has the experience in Britain been similar and do arms of the State there take ombudsmen to court?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Role and Functions: Pensions Ombudsman (24 Sep 2014)

Susan O'Keeffe: Could Mr. Kenny send a note clarifying this to the committee?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Role and Functions: Pensions Ombudsman (24 Sep 2014)

Susan O'Keeffe: It would be interesting, because we can draw from the experiences of British ombudsmen. I should have raised this earlier because it could be useful. Is it easy to get this information?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Role and Functions: Pensions Ombudsman (24 Sep 2014)

Susan O'Keeffe: I second the thanks expressed by the Chairman, as the witnesses have been very helpful. Their clarity is appreciated.

Seanad: Valuation (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (1 Oct 2014)

Susan O'Keeffe: I understand the reasoning behind streamlining the activity. Clerical errors occur all the time. The difficulty is the definition of clerical error and whether this presents an opportunity for someone to take advantage and identify a mistake as a clerical error when clearly it is not. The question regarding responsibility is important given the existence of a commissioner. We are probably...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Role and Functions: Office of the Ombudsman (1 Oct 2014)

Susan O'Keeffe: I thank the Ombudsman for his presentation and the casebook. On the Chair's point about standardised cases, is the Ombudsman allowed to advertise his services? By that I mean in a coherent way, not on the back of a bus. Mr. Tyndall referred to the difficulties in respect of clinical judgment. Was he effectively calling for an ombudsman for the HSE or did I misinterpret him? It is great...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Role and Functions: Office of the Ombudsman (1 Oct 2014)

Susan O'Keeffe: My last query was whether Mr. Tyndall was asking for an ombudsman for the HSE.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Role and Functions: Office of the Ombudsman (1 Oct 2014)

Susan O'Keeffe: I thank the Ombudsman for this very useful information.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Oct 2014)

Susan O'Keeffe: Fianna Fáil was in government for 14 years and did not take action. Those opposite said nothing during that entire period.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Oct 2014)

Susan O'Keeffe: The Senator's party took no action at all.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Oct 2014)

Susan O'Keeffe: That is beneath the Senator.

Seanad: Arts and Culture Sector: Motion (8 Oct 2014)

Susan O'Keeffe: It is welcome all the same.

Seanad: Arts and Culture Sector: Motion (8 Oct 2014)

Susan O'Keeffe: It is a hard act to follow. I thank the Minister for being here. I particularly welcome the motion that Fianna Fáil has put forward on the grounds that it shows an enormous interest in the arts.

Seanad: Arts and Culture Sector: Motion (8 Oct 2014)

Susan O'Keeffe: We will ignore the darker arts that might be at play. Indeed the idea that Fianna Fáil would stand up and trumpet its role in what it has created is not in the spirit of the arts at all, given that, as the previous speaker has said eloquently, the arts belong to all of us. They do not belong to any particular party and what it might have achieved or might not have achieved. We are here...

Seanad: Arts and Culture Sector: Motion (8 Oct 2014)

Susan O'Keeffe: Is the Senator suggesting his party never did it?

Seanad: Arts and Culture Sector: Motion (8 Oct 2014)

Susan O'Keeffe: We have had one already.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Oct 2014)

Susan O'Keeffe: Several weeks ago, I raised the serious difficulties relating to the special investigations unit, SIU, in the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, and called for the Minister to attend the House to discuss them. At the time I described it as a private hit squad, and I reiterate that. In the meantime, I am delighted the Minister has disbanded the SIU and put in place a restructured...

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Oct 2014)

Susan O'Keeffe: I thank Senator Darragh O'Brien for a good idea on CPR on this day. I am certain that some schools engage in CPR training and I understand the Senator's suggestion to be that it could be formalised and set in place in order that all schools might be able to avail of it. Thereafter, young people going out into the world would have such training at their disposal and this might be a matter on...