Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

Obviously, regarding the report that was given to us, we always knew that the amount of funding that was available to Caranua was going to be finite. I do not think there is any doubt that the people who were best able to make the applications were those from whom the applications were first received. I think that because the funding was finite, that was an internal decision of Caranua to make sure that there was sufficient funding for people making applications. I think there is some information we already have on that. Again, we certainly got complaints - I did over the years - and they were certainly worse at the beginning. There were people who did benefit from this funding, and there is no doubt about that.