John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank Deputy Deasy. I will reflect on this just for a minute. The central concern is the 30 to 40 young adults, at the time, who were in care. That is first and foremost. For the work of this committee what is important is the governance issues, the cost and so on, and the investigation itself, whether that was good governance practice or management practice. The other issue that I find in this report, which I have read, is the issue of protection for the whistleblowers. I will start by asking if Mr. Healy can tell me, from the date of the reporting, which was 2009, the funding graph for the following five years for the agency that employed the whistleblowers. Will Mr. Healy tell us what that agency received in, say, 2007 onwards?