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:

No. I am confident that we are advancing on the land associated with it. We have not seen in our engagement with the orders on these issues that they are unwilling to transfer the land. However, I stress that the figure will depend on the land value when the land is transferred, not necessarily on the land valuations included in the 2009 offer. The land may be worth more or less than they thought it was in 2009 when the offer was made. We are working through the land transfers with them. They have not reneged on them and we are confident that we will receive the land. Moving past that, we have sought what we seek through the engagement. Initially there was the post-Ryan report engagement, after which, as the Deputy will recall, the Government changed and the new Government came in. That Government and the then Minister who was leading on the issue, Deputy Ruairí Quinn, met the orders to ask for further contributions. They have not committed to anything further as a result of that initiative.

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