Mr. Tony O'Brien:

I need to answer that in two chunks. First, we know that the cost to Console of providing this service exceeded the amount we paid for it. Given what we now know, one almost wonders why no attempt was made to get us to increase the funding. It seems that no such attempt was made. It will not be possible to discern whether any of the funds we provided for Console were ultimately misappropriated along the line until we see the full liquidation report. In other words, we will have to see whether there are remaining debts, etc., that would not remain if the HSE funding had been applied for the intended purposes. We know that in the overall course of events, the helpline was provided and highly valued by those who used it. As members have said, we know that it was of a good quality. We also know that it cost Console more to provide it than we paid for it.