Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 13 April 2017

Public Accounts Committee

Special Report No. 96 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Child Abuse Inquiry and Redress

9:00 am

Mr. Seán Ó Foghlú:

I can talk about lessons that have been learned. The Deputy has summarised the nature of many of the lessons. The uncertainty at the start about the numbers who were to be included was a key element. The planning in respect of having a commission in advance of planning for the redress and the scale, difficulty and challenge of that is part of what we will have to look at. We have also learned about the legal costs. We tried and succeeded in reducing these costs significantly from comparative costs in the courts but we will have to look at how that can be further worked on for the future.

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