People from disadvantaged areas slow to complain to ombudsman

PEOPLE from disadvantaged areas of Dublin don’t generally complain about the way public servants treat them, Ombudsman Kevin Murphy revealed yesterday.

“In the areas of Dublin where you’d expect most of the complaints to come from, they don’t actually,” Mr Murphy said at the launch of his 2002 report.

“We did set up a clinic for a while in Tallaght; it wasn’t very successful. We have one clinic in Coolock and it’s very successful and working reasonably well.