Ombudsman Emily O'Reilly publishes 2010 Annual Report

 

Office of the Ombudsman 
Media Release 
Wednesday 8th June 2011

Ombudsman Emily O’Reilly releases her Annual Report for year 2010.

Ombudsman strongly welcomes Government's reforming commitment to extend the remit of the Office of the Ombudsman to all publicly funded bodies and the establishment of a new Oireachtas Committee as the formal channel of consultation and collaboration between the Oireachtas and the Ombudsman.                                                                                                                                                                                                                              

·        Complaints made to her Office in 2010 rise to 3,727 - up 30% on 2009, the highest number recorded in over 10 years. 
·        1,317 complaints made in 2010 were outside her jurisdiction – up 22% when compared with 2009. 
·        9,390 enquiries made to her Office. 
      
Full text of the media release available here:   

Read the full report and/or download a pdf copy of the Ombudsman Annual Report 2010 at: 

http://www.ombudsman.gov.ie/en/Reports/AnnualReports/AnnualReportoftheOmbudsman2010/index.html 

For media inquiries contact: Dave Glynn - Head of Communications and Research   Tel: 01 6395714 / 087 2361884     
email: david_glynn@ombudsman.gov.ie


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