10 October 2019

Ombudsman Peter Tyndall had to contact his Portuguese counterpart when the Portuguese State pension authorities stopped paying three Irish nuns their pensions. The nuns had returned to Ireland after spending decades in Portugal providing education and care to disadvantaged people. The nuns had been without pension payments for over six months when they complained to the Ombudsman. The Ombudsman used the European Ombudsman Network to eventually restore the payments to the nuns.