# ombudsman - Thursday 10 October, 2019
The sisters’ payments stopped after they returned from Portugal to live in Ireland.
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# ombudsman - Wednesday 25 September, 2019
Peter Tyndall called for more powers for the Ombudsman’s office.
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# ombudsman - Tuesday 30 July, 2019
Some overpayments have not been recovered because of a litany of mistakes by the Department of Employment and Social Protection.
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# ombudsman - Thursday 13 June, 2019
Ombudsman Dr Niall Muldoon said anecdotal evidence shows some children suffer disproportionately from “reduced timetables”.
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# ombudsman - Tuesday 28 May, 2019
The Ombudsman received more than 3,300 complaints about public services last year.
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# ombudsman - Monday 8 April, 2019
The collaboration between the HSE and Tusla is still of concern, the ombudsman said.
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# ombudsman - Tuesday 26 March, 2019
The PSNI has said the first officers at the scene “withdrew to await further police support”.
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# ombudsman - Wednesday 13 March, 2019
Complaints from residents were about food, lack of cooking facilities and the availability of transport.
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# ombudsman - Wednesday 14 November, 2018
Just 10 of 36 recommendations in a 2015 report have been fully implemented.
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# ombudsman - Wednesday 20 June, 2018
The woman’s allowances were reduced significantly when her two children turned 18, despite them both having intellectual disabilities.
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# ombudsman - Saturday 2 June, 2018
Previously, women who had worked in laundries not covered by the Magdalene Restorative Justice scheme had been denied compensation.
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# ombudsman - Thursday 29 March, 2018
The case was mediated on by the Financial Services Ombudsman, and the man’s family were awarded €8,000.
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# ombudsman - Thursday 23 November, 2017
The Ombudsman has been harshly critical of the Department of Justice in his report published this morning.
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# ombudsman - Saturday 21 October, 2017
The case is included in the Defence Forces Ombudsman annual report for 2016.
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# ombudsman - Tuesday 10 October, 2017
The complaint against Garda Keith Harrison was made under section 102 of the Garda Siochana Act, relating to gardaí causing serious harm or death.
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# ombudsman - Saturday 23 September, 2017
Gardaí have confirmed that the matter has been referred to the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission.
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# ombudsman - Tuesday 8 August, 2017
The woman, whose records were lost by the HSE/Tusla for over three years, says she feels the latest ombudsman report into Tusla’s complaints procedures won’t change anything.
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# ombudsman - Wednesday 19 July, 2017
A new report from the Ombudsman highlighted case studies where Tusla failed to adequately investigate abuse allegations.
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# ombudsman - Tuesday 18 July, 2017
The Ombudsman was critical of Tusla’s procedures for dealing with abuse allegations.
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# ombudsman - Thursday 1 June, 2017
After suffering from bleeding and ongoing pain, the woman was not contacted by the hospital and eventually had to go to A&E.
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# ombudsman - Wednesday 31 May, 2017
The incident was included as a case study in the Office of the Ombudsman’s annual report for 2016.
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# ombudsman - Friday 21 April, 2017
An RTÉ Investigates programme broadcast last night called into question whether the man who shot Garda Golden and Siobhán Phillips was in fact a Garda informer.
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# ombudsman - Monday 6 March, 2017
The HSE’s child and family services, the precursor to Tusla, also repeatedly sent details of the case to a series of incorrect addresses.
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# ombudsman - Tuesday 20 December, 2016
Cases under review by the Ombudsman for Defence Forces rose 15% in 2015.
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# ombudsman - Thursday 6 October, 2016
A GSOC report found that there had been no wrongdoing by gardaí in the incident.
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# ombudsman - Thursday 22 September, 2016
Judge Mary Ellen Ring said they are taking up the slack for other agencies.
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# ombudsman - Wednesday 10 June, 2015
The woman’s mother, who suffered from mental health problems, passed away in 2012.
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# ombudsman - Wednesday 25 February, 2015
Mortgage issues continue to be the highest drivers of complaints.
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# ombudsman - Tuesday 3 February, 2015
Dr Niall Muldoon has been working in child protection for 20 years.
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# ombudsman - Tuesday 18 November, 2014
No one present when the incident occurred has come forward to the Ombudsman.
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# ombudsman - Friday 17 October, 2014
GSOC said time taken to receive information requested from the Garda Síochána in relation to investigations has “improved significantly”.
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# ombudsman - Sunday 21 September, 2014
This comes on the first anniversary of Emily O’Reilly’s time in the position.
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# ombudsman - Wednesday 10 September, 2014
The Sunday Times journalist declined an invitation to cooperate with the inquiry.
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# ombudsman - Wednesday 16 July, 2014
The new Gaeltacht minister isn’t fluent in Irish and the de-prioritisation of older people’s issues has been rubber-stamped; whole sections of society are being disenfranchised.
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# ombudsman - Tuesday 24 June, 2014
Logan has published her recommendations on the Children and Family Relationships Bill.
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# ombudsman - Thursday 19 June, 2014
The Sinn Féin Leader believes that the report is incomplete.
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# ombudsman - Tuesday 17 June, 2014
The PSNI said a number of recommendations aimed at improving safety have been made to cell vans.
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# ombudsman - Friday 13 June, 2014
And he wants your help in investigating.
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# ombudsman - Wednesday 11 June, 2014
“As you look back now, there is still an ‘outstanding anomaly’ in the words of the judge,” Simon O’Brien said this morning.
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# ombudsman - Tuesday 3 June, 2014
Think about your average week and how much bureaucracy you have to deal with. Now think about how difficult that is for an older person.
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