Mr. Fintan Dunne:

Deputies Robert Troy and Sandra McLellan and Senator Colm Burke touched on the quality of information, the verification of information and attempting to get to the bottom of the matter. A very effective set of intersecting skills have been built up in the private sector which enables the resolution of these complex detective functions. If we attempt to formally replicate these ad hocprocedures with the much slower pace of a bureaucratic structure, we may tie ourselves up in impenetrable knots. We must find a way to bring the totality of the information available before all parties, not just an isolated birth, hospital or adoption agency record, in order that we can begin to tease out the truth of these matters.

Ms McMahon has addressed another aspect of funding which Senator Colm Burke mentioned and which perhaps arises from this discussion, namely, that we must streamline as much as possible in order to keep the funding tolerable for the taxpayer and the results and outcomes achievable in a limited timeframe. We are forced into streamlining in order to deal with the issues involved.