David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

As it feeds into a broader issue, I want to make this point.

I agree with everything Teachta Connolly said on this issue. We ask questions to get clarity. Unfortunately, we have not got clarity. There is more confusion now than there was before we got the correspondence. Obviously, that is problematic for is.

We are juggling many issues which is quite difficult for us. We have the issue of the Garda training college, as well as the third and fourth level sectors. We are going in the right direction in putting a focus on many of these issues. Caranua is a good example. I have said a number of times that we are holding hearings. The hearing was also in respect of the special report the Comptroller and Auditor General did on the redress schemes. Many were issues were raised by members with the Secretary General as to how the scheme was devised in the first place, false and mistakes and so on. Where is the follow up for the committee? If one looks at the structure we are putting around the third and fourth level area and the Garda training college, we are moving in the right direction.

Maybe we can do something similar here so that we know exactly what the follow-up is. Teachta Connolly has raised serious issues. I am not sure how it is best for us to proceed. It is not good enough that we have hearings and ask questions to which we receive inadequate responses. We just go back and forth in correspondence and do not get anywhere. We need to give some thought to dealing with this. It is somewhat similar to the other issues.