Alan Kelly (Tipperary North, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I have some final questions and then I will sum up because there were some specific requests from committee members and so on. We have reached a point where there is a wall that we cannot get past.

Regarding the distinction between the complaints and concerns, the timeline associated with that seems to be January 2024. The situation is that prior to January 2024 we were in the concerns territory and from 2024 on we were in official complaint territory. That seems to be the executive summary of it all. The issue for the committee, given everything that is out there in the public domain, thanks to the diligent work of people I referred to previously, is that there is a genuine concern that in the pre-January 2024 period the organisation was not robust enough or did not, for whatever reasons, which may remain unknown, deal with these issues with the seriousness that was required . That is the summary of where we are at. I think that is fair to say. This is something that we as a committee will have to reflect on. I will sum up in a few minutes how we will deal with that.

Mr. Courell referred earlier - he refused at the beginning but he drifted into it later in our chat - to correspondence. He said there was correspondence. Obviously, it is a complaint from January. Is there any issue that the committee needs to be aware of, as part of this process, that we are not aware of, from January 2024?