Susan O'Keeffe (Labour) | Oireachtas source

The witnesses said that they would like to remain funded through the grant system. Some people would argue that is at the core of the problem. People who get grants have a grant mentality and ought to move to a different mentality. I have heard very clearly the witnesses’ criticisms of the tender system, but is there some grain of truth in the argument about the grant mentality? I know that the witnesses argue that their modus operandiand ethos are utterly different from the normal tender process. People latch on to that and say they just want the grant.