David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

It seems that the vast majority of the money was not spent on communicating before there was any plan that there was going to be a plan. A small fraction of the money was spent on saying to Joe and Josephine Soap that they could actually make an input into this. The lion's share of the money was spent on going out to promote the report and all the bells and whistles that go with it as a document. That is fine as well. There might be logic in that. The point is that the vast majority of the money was spent when it was done rather than on letting citizens know what was being done in the first place and engaging with them.