Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The witnesses' openness is very welcome. If such openness had been shown years ago, we would not be in the position where €54 million and rising has been spent on the area. I do not want to exaggerate the cost of the Finlay and Lindsay tribunals but the figure was high enough. The tribunals cost €47 million and there is also the cost of the compensation for all the heartbreak and the terrible implications of what happened. It amounted to €1.5 billion. According to the document provided, everyone who was infected as a consequence of the State's responsibility was to receive care by 2017. Why was that year chosen?