Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I support that but I do not think we know the question yet. I agree with the Comptroller and Auditor General that we need to tease it out. He may not have used those words but he said we should not go down the road of a definition yet. I agree totally. If we look at Caranua, for example, which is coming up later today, there is a jump of €43,000 for other consultancy. That is the same for every organisation. Perhaps the answer is somewhere in one of the organisations mentioned - Preferred Results. We get reports to give us the preferred results. I am not saying anything against this organisation but the clue is in its name. We have the Grace case, on which we are awaiting the result from the commission of inquiry. How many reports were compiled in that regard? How many Preferred Results consultancy reports were compiled in respect of the national children's hospital?

There is a much larger issue here and the first step is collation to see the nature of the beast, to use a bad pun. We do not know what are talking about at the moment in respect of the money spent on consultancy.