Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent)
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There is. I hear about processes all the time, but I cannot judge it. I do not know what the percentage is without looking at it. Every week we hear about processes and process failures. In private session earlier we heard about a case in which the process had become abusive. It was in another situation, into which I cannot go. That is my opinion and I would say it is the opinion of my colleagues. When we read about the process in the other situation - it has nothing to do with the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission - we found that the actual process had become an instrument of abuse. We are left looking at and dealing with it, which is not really our remit. There are messages to be looked at.