Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

That is great. What we are asking is that Caranua demonstrates that. I want to get an indication of the timing of the 378 that have been received since, for example, how many came in during August, September or the following month. Ms Hynes said earlier that Caranua received an inquiry in the last week or two, so they are still coming in. We have already established that €8 million is probably significantly more than needed to deal with the outstanding cases. At the end of the day, we do not want to find that there are, as the case may be, 200 requests on file for funding from people who were abused, and because their application came in after Wednesday, 2 August, decades after they were abused, they were told they were a day late, a week late or a month late. That would be a travesty when the process is over. We have had many difficulties with Caranua. We do not want a situation where there are 200 people we can do nothing for. It is an issue that will not go away. While it will probably be for the Department to take up, long before the wind-up we need an assessment or report from Caranua in regard to the cases where it has been notified, and also an estimate based on its experience as to how much it will cost to settle those cases. If it is a question that the Department or somebody has to find perhaps another €5 million, €2 million, €6 million or €8 million, or perhaps no money, in the context that not just 22 cases but 378 cases have come in late, we cannot leave several hundred people out there.