Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I heard the Chairman's opinion. He chairs the meetings very well and normally I do not disagree too much with him, but I disagree with him fundamentally on this. He is conflating issues inappropriately. I, more than anyone, am fully conscious there is an inquiry and we should not trespass in any way into it. It is an indictment that we have had to come to the stage where there is an inquiry regarding this matter so we will park that. This is with regard to value for money and how much money the organisation got or did not get. It is clear the service provider maintained at all times, right up to the present day, that it was underfunded. Do we accept that it was underfunded?