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

I cannot for the life of me understand why the Benefacts database was dispensed with, but it has moved on and the Department of Rural and Community Development is exploring options that essentially involve duplicating what was already there. It was a very useful database. Is there a role for people who were involved in Benefacts? I know databases go out of date if one does not continue to populate them but is there a role for retrieving some of the information that was there? It was very well used. I cannot understand what the Department is trying to achieve that will be different. Is there a role for some of the people who were involved in running Benefacts? Can the information that populated the database continue to be used or can the platform be retrieved?