Kate O'Connell (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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That is an astounding lack of governance. It is my experience that where there is an opportunity to commit fraud, people will always avail of it. The Department left itself wide open. As I understand it, a childcare provider could register 20, 40, 50 or 100 children and could claim payment per child, but the children might never have spent a day in the facility. Surely that is just a glaring lack of governance when it comes to public money. This was not going on for just one year, such as when one sets up a new scheme and there may be teething problems, it was happening on for eight years.