Joint Committee on Public Petitions and the Ombudsmen to discuss range of petitions

• Public Petition Number P00006/22 ‘Bye/By Elections in Ireland may comply with legislation however they do not comply with the Constitution’ (resumed);
• Public Petition Number P00035/22 ‘Amend Child Care Act 1991 to provide HIQA with the necessary powers to sanction Tusla, Child and Family Agency when it fails to meet its statutory obligations’ (resumed);
• Public Petition Number P00066/22 ‘Create a Health Services Student Allowance’ (resumed);
• Public Petition Number P00012/23 ‘Justice and Safety’ (resumed);
• Public Petition Number P00022/23 ‘Supreme Court referral of the Incitement to Hatred Bill 2022’ (resumed);
• Public Petition Number P00036/23 ‘Invincibles Reinterment Campaign’ (resumed);
• Public Petition Number P00002/24 ‘Fairness for Existing Work Permit Holders: We want to stay and contribute’.

The Joint Committee on Public Petitions and the Ombudsmen is a standing Committee of the Houses of the Oireachtas and has 11 Members, seven from the Dáil and four from the Seanad.

The meeting in the Committee Room 4 can be viewed live on Oireachtas TV.

Committee proceedings can also be viewed on the Houses of the Oireachtas Smartphone App, available for Apple and Android devices.