Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 13 April 2017

Public Accounts Committee

Special Report No. 96 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Child Abuse Inquiry and Redress

9:00 am

Mr. Dalton Tattan:

It took us by surprise because the scheme had been well up and running at that point - the legislation had been enacted in 2002 - and had been well advertised. After several years of that, we would have expected that we had the bulk of the applications.