The Ombudsman has launched an investigation into why more than 1,300 people under 65 are being housed in nursing homes.

Thirty-two Magdalene laundry survivors, who had been in dispute with the Department of Justice about the length of time they worked in a laundry, have received an increased redress payment.

Some people were put into "extremes of poverty" by the recovery of social-welfare overpayments, the Ombudsman Peter Tyndall has said following the publication of a new report today.

The Government has been accused of failing to provide the healthcare package it promised to Magdalene Laundry survivors in 2013.

The Information Commissioner has revealed his office is carrying out an investigation into some public bodies’ compliance with Freedom of Information (FoI) request deadlines, amid concerns over “unacceptable” delays.

The Disabled Drivers and Disabled Passengers Scheme, brought in in 1994, was designed to respond to the needs, in particular, of motorists who, because of their physical condition, needed to buy and maintain specially adapted vehicles for their use.

Eight Magdalene laundry survivors, who had been in dispute with the Department of Justice over the length of time they worked in a laundry, have received an additional redress payment.

The Office of the Ombudsman received more than 150 complaints from people living in direct-provision centres last year.

Grievances against government departments, local authorities, and health and social services dominate the thousands of complaints to the Ombudsman last year.

Just seven of the 97 women who applied to the widened Magdalene redress scheme have received a payment.

Many asylum seekers living in direct provision centres have described the right to work as “liberating”.

The HSE has only implemented 10 out of 36 Ombudsman recommendations three years after an investigation into the health service.

Strike one for the little guy.

The Ombudsman received more than 3,000 complaints about providers of public services last year, including an increase in complaints about local authorities linked to planning and housing and 115 complaints from asylum seekers.

In a society happy to take refuge in secrecy, an honest reckoning does not come easily.

Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan has apologised to Magdalene laundry survivors and pledged that the Government will address in full gaps, delays or disputes over their struggle for justice.

Women who worked in St Finbarr’s Industrial School and Marymount Training Centre in Cork are among those who may benefit from the Government decision to extend its Magdalene laundries redress scheme to 14 additional institutions.

Last year was the “worst year on record” for public bodies failing to make a decision in time on freedom of information (FoI) requests.

Can we name any medical/social scandal that has affected only the male gender?

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said that women wrongly excluded from the Magdalene Laundries redress scheme will be receive redress payments “without delay”.

Three-year-old plans to reform the Seanad by allowing all citizens to vote on who should be elected are set to be examined by a 26-person political committee amid fresh claims the changes are being deliberately delayed.

Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan will brief Cabinet today of his intention to fully implement the Ombudsman’s recommendations on the Magdalene laundries redress scheme.

Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan is to meet with the Ombudsman “in the coming weeks” to discuss the findings of his scathing report into the administration of the Magdalene Laundries redress scheme.

The Department of Justice has missed the deadline to respond to one of the Ombudsman’s key recommendations about the Magdalene Redress scheme.

Seven vulnerable Magdalene laundry survivors have died without receiving a penny of the redress they were granted in 2013.

The Department of Justice has been accused of an “utterly scandalous” approach in wrongly refusing redress to some women who worked in Magdalene Laundries.

The Ombudsman received 97 formal complaints from residents of direct provision centres last year, with some asylum seekers claiming they were reluctant to complain about issues where they lived for fear of being labelled “troublemakers”.

IT is one thing for the HSE to tie itself up in knots in administering the health service but it is quite another to extent that bureaucratic mindset to the detriment of those who depend on it for their very lives.

A man with a rare, painful, and debilitating disease was denied HSE funding for specialist treatment abroad due to shortcomings in the scheme designed to finance such requests, an Ombudsman investigation has found.

For more than 200 years, from the 18th century to the late 20th century, so-called ‘fallen’ women and their children endured the horrors of the Magdalene laundries. 

The Ombudsman has been scathing of the Department of Justice over the Magdalene redress scheme and its ‘inexcusable’ treatment of survivors, writes Conall Ó Fátharta.

The Department of Justice failed to examine all available evidence when it wrongly refused some Magdalene laundry survivors access to redress payments.

Almost 35,000 pensioners and other welfare recipients are making weekly repayments to the Department of Social Protection after it was discovered they were overpaid sometime in the past — in one case as far back as 31 years ago.

The additional charges imposed by nursing homes are “impoverishing people”, ombudsman Peter Tyndall said yesterday.

People using mental health services feel they have little control over their own lives.

Tusla, the child and family agency, has been found to have “serious failings” in how it carries out its role.

The Justice For Magdalenes Research (JFMR) group has written to the Ombudsman expressing its long-held concerns over the Magdalene redress scheme.

A bitter nine-month behind the scenes row with the Department of Justice led the Ombudsman to launch an investigation into the “possible maladministration” of the Magdalene redress scheme.