Defence Forces
Dail Éireann — 2021-09-30
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Simon Coveney (FG), Cork South-Central

On this case, I received a recommendation from the Ombudsman for the Defence Forces, which ruled that a person was not discriminated against when it was subsequently determined by the WRC that they were discriminated against. When a Minister gets a report from an ombudsman's office and disagrees with it, he or she undermines the ombudsman's authority and credibility. I have to trust in the systems that are in place and when recommendations come to me through an ombudsman's office or through other systems that are set up to provide accurate and detailed recommendations to a Minister, and I get lots of those recommendations all the time, it would be very unusual to go against that. One would need real cause to do it.

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Sitting date: 2021-09-30