John Deasy (Waterford, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Mr. Doyle knows what I am saying. It has gone on for months and Mr. Doyle has known some of these people for ten or 15 years. They were actively involved and employed in his organisation. Everybody in the country knew what was happening in the section 38 and section 39 sector. The board knew this was coming. It was well flagged months ago that the committee had brought up the issue. Considering the turnover of the organisation, half of its income, or more, was public money. We have gone through that ad nauseam. Did anyone say Rehab had a serious problem considering the arguments the committee was making? Rehab was accepting the amount of money from the State while trotting out the line that it was a commercial organisation, and nobody was buying it because Rehab was wearing two hats. Why did it take so long for Rehab to deal with this definitively? I do not understand it.