TV Show

Viennese horse-drawn carriage businesses see their traditional rides around the city centre old town as being in danger and are complaining of an extreme shortage of carriage stands in the first district of Vienna. (On TV on 23 March 2012)

In summer 2009 a young teacher complained to the Ombudsman Board that after having started to work she had to wait for over two months for her first salary. Then it turned out that this had not been a onetime error but also an error in the system.

For three years until the end of last year the seventeen year old Markus frequented the integration school in Thörl. He would have liked to finish his fourth year at the same school. However, in February 2011 his mother received a notice by the District School Office which foresees that Markus visits a special school in Kapfenberg.

In 2008, Mr S. was heavily injured at his workplace, a car repair shop: his employer hit him with a client’s car which was there for repair. Since then Mr S. receives a disability pension and suffers from the long-term negative effects.

In this issue, a turf war between the regional and federal administration endangers the necessary assistance of a handicapped schoolgirl in Vorarlberg, and Ombudswoman Stoisits reports on positive developments in the cause of noise complaints against a business enterprise in Upper Austria.

In this issue inhabitants of Paudorf in Lower Austria complain about impairments due to significant dust caused by a local quarry, and Ombudswoman Stoisits reports on positive developments concerning the sponshorship of a Slovenian music school in Carinthia.

For Mr. Nagl, resdident in Mannersdorf am Leithagebirge in Lower Austria, a bycicle ride ended up in the Regional Public Hospital of Mödling, after colliding with an iron bollard of 50 centimetres in height, which had been installed at the cycle lane of Mannerdorf.

Ombudswoman Brinek reports on progress and success in paying for water damage and in compensation for burial in a pauper's grave. Further cases concern the payment modes for the housing benefit, a conflict over a sewer connection and a landslide causing severe damage.