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. Seán Ó Foghlú:

May I complete my response? This was not accepted by the Christian Brothers. The Minister, having discussed it with his colleagues in government, then asked that they be transferred to the Edmund Rice Schools Trust, the trust the Christian Brothers had established, and that, if they ended up selling the land, they should give 50% of the value of the sale to the State. They turned that down. That is what they did. They then informed us that they were transferring the lands to the Edmund Rice Schools Trust.