Office of the Ombudsman, Ireland
Contact Information

The Office of the Ombudsman is open between 9.15 and 5.30 Monday to Thursday and 9.15 to 5.15 on Friday.

18 Lr. Leeson Street, Dublin 2.

Tel: +353-1-639 5600

Lo-call: 1890 223030

Fax: (01) 639 5674 Email: ombudsman@ombudsman.gov.ie

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What's New?

New Sample Cases Sample Cases

Article Maintaining the accountability of the public service Irish Times 11 July 2008

Report Annual Report of the Ombudsman 2007

Press Release Annual Report 2007

Press Release Sample Cases

Ombudsman Report Complaints against the General Register Office

Press Release Complaints against the General Register Office (8/10/2007)

New Sample Cases: Department of Social and Family Affairs,Health Service Executive Eastern Region,Dublin City Council

Press Release: Ombudsman publishes Case Reports

Investigation report: Complaint to the Ombudsman against Clare County Council concerning its handling of planning applications for development at Doonbeg Golf Course

Report Annual Report of the Ombudsman 2006

Press Release: Annual Report 2006

Press Release: Investigation Report on fostering 

Investigation Report: Complaint Handling in Kildare County Council - A Report by the Ombudsman 

Investigation Report A Summary Report by the Ombudsman involving a complaint about the Health Service Executive's handling of an application to foster three children

Speech Forging the Link at the National Council of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Com Kildare, 28 April 2007.

Speech Human Rights and the Ombudsman at the Biennial Conference of the British and Irish Ombudsman Association, Scarman House, University of Warwick, England, 27 April 2007

Speech "The Ombudsman and Inclusion of People with Intellectual Disabilities in Society at the Inclusion Ireland AGM, Clarion Hotel, Cork, 21 April 2007

Speech "Setting up an Ombudsman Institution or National Human Rights Institution" at the 10th Table of European Ombudsmen and the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Athens, 12 April 2007

Press Release Awareness Drive Launch 

Speech "Essential Nursing Care - Heart of the Matter" at the Sligo General Hospital Conference, 29 November 2006

Speech Advocacy and Complaints at the National Advocacy Conference, Limerick, 9 November 2006  

Speech Putting People First given at the AGM of the Irish Association of Directors of Nursing and Midwifery, Tullamore, 5 October 2006. 

Article STRENGTHENING THE RIGHTS OF CHILDREN 

Speech Role of the Office of the Ombudsman given at the Conference on Rights and Entitlements of Older People, Croke Park, 2 October 2006 

Appointment Access Officer under the the Disability Act 2005

Press Release Annual Report 2005

Speech Speech at the launch of a Policy Paper on Family Reunification

Speech Launch of the Diploma in Management of Modern Public Service Delivery

Speech "Serving the Public: has the Modernisation Agenda delivered?"(25 May 2006)

Speech "From the Ground Up" (20 May 2006)

New Service Ombudsman Link Service

Press Release Complaints against the Public Health Service

Press Release "Superannuation Arrears" (16/02/2006)

Press Release "Launch of two new websites"  (21.12.2005)

Speech - "How Far Towards Equality" (29.11.2005)

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