Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

There are serious lessons to be learned. Mr. Ó Foghlú has accepted that and he has agreed with the Comptroller and Auditor General's recommendations that the indemnity agreement be followed up and that there should be a look back assessment. I would have expected that to have started given mother and baby homes and other institutions need to be looked at, that officials would have learned from this and that they would be coming to the committee telling us what lessons they had learned about their predictions, which were inaccurate, in terms of time, money and legal costs. On occasion, 30% of the commission's expenditure was accounted for by legal costs. It was less for the inquiry. There were many examples throughout the world of different commissions and ways of doing things. Is it correct that the idea behind the redress scheme was to cut down on legal costs?