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

There is a disingenuous play on words at points Nos. 1 and 3. It is claimed that they did not have a relationship but they did. It states payment was provided for services. That is, to me, pretty much the same thing. On the third page of the reply, there is reference to the fact that the high-level purpose of the exercise is to explore options for a platform that would reduce the administrative burden on grantees and funders, as well as providing a single source of truth and source analysis on a State-funded community and voluntary grantees, and the investment being made into these organisations. That does not address the use. We received a letter from the CSO last week which allowed us to see the amount of money it is going to have to spend to replicate this. The Department of Rural and Community Development will be constructing something new that is less than the service that was provided by Benefacts. We are going around in circles. Benefacts feels to me like the spinning blue ring on a computer. I cannot allow this pass without comment.