This was the second national ombudsmen seminar to take place in Strasbourg, just over eleven years a er the first-ever such seminar which was organised in September 1996.
Ba é seo dara seimineár na nombudsmain náisiúnta a tharla i Strasbourg, breis is aon bhliain déag tar éis an chéad seimineáir dá shórt, imeacht a bhí ar siúl i Meán Fómhair 1996.