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LABOUR AND SOCIAL INCLUSION DEPARTMENT RESPONSE TO THE CIVIL OMBUDSMAN

The following is the response given by the Ministry of Labour and Social Inclusion to the Civil Ombudsman.

 

I could not make this up, it seems that they admit that they are incapable of doing the work they are paid to do.

 

Apparently if you happened to read the Houston Chronicle or attend for some reason the Norwegian Seaman’s churches in either Houston or New Orleans you would have been informed. If not that’s your problem.

 

While their expensive work accomplished nothing, the NSDA has managed to achieve exponentially better results at a very minor fraction of the cost.

 

Imagine what we could do with even one percent of their budget.

 

They should be embarrassed.

 

Tom Wingen

 

ARBEIDS OG INKLUDERINGSDEPARTEMENTET

(Labour and Social Inclusion Department)

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News, published 17.03.2009

Compensation for pioneer divers - Answers to Civil Ombudsman

Civil Ombudsman asked in December 2008 of Labor and Inclusion consider certain factors related to the compensation for the pioneer divers. Now the answer from the ministry.

Civil Ombudsman asks in a letter of 18 December 2008 Labor and Inclusion, among other things, to consider whether a letter should be sent informing about the compensation for pioneer divers to all persons in the relevant period who had been issued bell diving licenses in Norway. The Civil Ombudsman also ask the Ministry consider whether there is new information that suggests that the number of compensation entitled pioneer divers is higher than previously assumed.

Labor and Inclusion has after a thorough review to come at the Civil Ombudsman suggests the solution is unlikely to reach any foreign divers who are not informed about the scheme. The mailing lists that exist are largely without value, 30 years after they were in use. The Ministry has also reached the conclusion that there is no reason to conclude that there is new information that suggests that the number of eligible compensation pioneer divers are higher than the public inquiry previously assumed.

The ministry has emphasized that most of those affected by the compensation have been made familiar with it, without that we can thereby guarantee that all pioneer divers of foreign origin are aware of the scheme. There is one other posted information about the scheme in Norway portal and on Labor and Inclusion website. Contact telephone for pioneer divers (Dykkerkontkten/Divers Contact) , which was created when the compensation was adopted, informed about the scheme through its employees and on their websites. The Embassy in London and Houston have also tried to assist the tracing of divers. General Consulate in Houston has also distributed information about the compensation, including through contact with 15 humanitarian organizations, the seaman's churches in Houston and New Orleans, and through advertising in local press (Houston Chronicle). Information about the compensation was also posted on the General Consulate homepage.

The Ministry has explained these views in a letter of 16 March to the Civil Ombudsman.

 

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