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The ombudsman is appointed by the president of Ireland upon the nomination of both Houses of the Oireachtas.The ombudsman deals with complaints against providers of public services including Departments of State, local authorities, the HSE, publicly funded third-level education bodies, nursing homes and direct provision accommodation centres.
The office of the Northern Ireland Public Services Ombudsman (NIPSO), formerly known as the Northern Ireland Ombudsman, was first established in Northern Ireland in 1969. [2] [3] The role of an independent ombudsman was originally created as a response to the Northern Ireland civil rights movement, and complaints of institutional bias and discrimination in the areas of housing and jobs.
The Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission ( known as GSOC) (Irish: Coimisiún Ombudsman an Gharda Síochána) is an independent statutory body in Ireland charged with oversight of the Garda Síochána, the national police force. It is a three-member body established under the Garda Síochána Act, 2005, to deal with complaints from members of ...
Police Ombudsman's Office, Belfast, July 2010. The Office of the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland (OPONI; Irish: Ombudsman Póilíní do Thuaisceart Éireann, Ulster-Scots: Owersman fur tha Polis o Norlin Airlann) is a non-departmental public body intended to provide an independent, impartial police complaints system for the people and police under the Police (Northern Ireland) Acts of ...
The Ombudsman deals with complaints against Departments of State, local authorities, the Health Service Executive (Ireland), private and public nursing homes and direct provision accommodation services. [79] There are other ombudsmen established in Ireland. The first Pensions Ombudsman, Paul Kenny, was appointed in 2003.
The agency uploaded a daily average of 7,853 consumer complaints over the 10 days after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Feb. 3 ordered the bureau's staff to stop much of its work. Five days ...
The Ombudsman for the Defence Forces Ireland (ODF) is an independent office tasked with investigating complaints made by current and former members of the Irish Defence Forces. The Ombudsman for the Defence Forces was established as an independent statutory body as a result of the Ombudsman (Defence Forces) Act 2004.
Property condition remained the leading category as to why complaints were being made, followed by complaints handling, and health and safety. Social housing complaints probed by ombudsman hit ...