Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent)
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Mr. O'Driscoll might come back to us about this. It is internal within the Department, which is going through a transformation which I will not have time to go into today, and it is perhaps for the Joint Committee on Justice and Equality to address anyway. There were serious problems with the Department and that is why it is going through a transformation and why we have had many reports such as the Toland report. I will leave that aside. The Magdalen scheme is being administered under the Department. What has been learned with regard to administering the scheme effectively for people who are very vulnerable? What appeal process is there so that they do not resort to us in desperation, telling us that they have not been answered? That is not entirely fair to Mr. O'Driscoll because I have not given him all the details, but that is what I have been told.