Mr. Pat Healy:

From the interviews that were held with her family, and from the investigation and the records that are there, what is clear is the following. Ann was attending a special school and living at home, and when she came to graduate she had an assessment, as might happen, and moved part-time into a voluntary service, living at home part-time. This was not unusual at the time, not only in the south east but elsewhere. She was moving into adult-type services. The family had developed a good relationship with this mother - with this woman - and they maintained that relationship for 18 years. They were wedded to it and they felt very strongly about it. That comes across from those who undertook interviews and so on. The issue here is that in 1992 - or in 1998, as she became an adult - that was the level of development of the service at the time. In 2011, as the Garda was investigating matters, it contacted the local service, and there was engagement by An Garda Síochána and health service personnel over a period. Ann had moved into a five-day service at this stage, and to remove the requirement with regard to weekends, or anything of that nature, a seven-day service was offered.