Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent)
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On that matter, I welcome that we have finally got the documentation. I had a quick look at it, as did a person in my office. It is very difficult for members to be presented with 409 pages of documentation. We could not possibly go through it for today's meeting. One then loses track of why we asked the question in the first place. To go back to the kernel of the question, an independent report was commissioned as a result of the most serious concerns by the service providers, and the whistleblowers in particular, that the provider had not been sufficiently funded. They believed they had been punished or that they suffered. However, I can certainly stand over the fact that they were saying they did not get enough money to provide care for Grace, which I understand to be the nub of the matter. An independent report was commissioned to look into that. When I look at the independent report I begin to worry. That is absolutely no reflection on Deloitte, which was asked to do a job. However, when the a report is commissioned and then they start to have all of this-----