Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the updates. However, it has taken this committee and reports from the Comptroller and Auditor General on the redress scheme to follow up on this. We have said it many times but it is important to say it again. It should have not taken that much effort. If an agreement was made, voluntarily or legally, it should have been followed up.

On a general point, for example, Lenaboy in County Galway, a former industrial school, was finally transferred after ten years. The site had remained vacant in that time. It has taken all this time to transfer it to the local authority. Now it has an empty building that is derelict and that will cost the taxpayer a fortune, not to mention security. I fought for and wanted it this transfer. That is just one example of what has happened in this case of absolute mismanagement and failure to follow up.