Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 17 October 2019

Public Accounts Committee

Caranua Financial Statements 2017

9:00 am

Photo of Imelda MunsterImelda Munster (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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It is set out in the legislation. Even if it is legal, it is terribly wrong. What is happening is that money is being taken from the mouths of survivors of institutional abuse in this State and going, not to the national children's hospital, but to a contractor to make up for the overrun and the Government's incompetence. That is what is happening here. Money from the mouths of survivors of institutional abuse is going to a contractor as opposed to going to the people it ought to go to. That is a disgrace. Did the Department ever flag that with the Minister?