Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The Chairman is being very polite with me as I am sure my time has finished. It is essential that the review should look back and learn but it must also look forward and change the modus operandi. There must be a focused team with full-time employees looking at this. This money must be given out and it is clear the Department cannot do it, with the best will in the world. The two or three people identified are not assigned solely to this. It seems extraordinary that it takes the Comptroller and Auditor General's report to make the Department reflect on this. There is no sense of urgency and the response to the Comptroller and Auditor General's report is that this is part of the work programme rather than something that needed an urgent review in order to see where this was going. If I thought it would come from today's proceedings, I would be delighted. It would be worthwhile.