Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

These services were designed to provide for a particularly vulnerable group. Survivors bring up the issues of the legal costs and the fact that it was supposed to be mediated, along with other overheads. When an organisation is asked a specific question by the Committee of Public Accounts and does not answer it, the only conclusion we can draw is that the organisation does not want to answer the question. The group receiving services from Caranua is most vulnerable and is relying on us to get responses. We have to be very clear with Caranua that we want a yes or no answer. We do not want to go around the houses. We want clear responses and a commitment that we will not have lease arrangements hoovering up funds that will not be replenished, as Deputy Connolly has said. As the Deputy has also said, the timeline is important here.