David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein)
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The survivors have nothing to do with failures of controls in Mr. O'Callaghan's organisation. He should not suggest that the survivors or their needs are the reason his board failed in its duty to correct the weaknesses the Comptroller and Auditor General outlined every year. At the start of this response, Mr. O'Callaghan stated that the weaknesses lay in the way in which the organisation was set up. That may well be the case. It may well be the case that it was not staffed properly and that it was set up hastily, but the reality is that it was set up and was in place and, over the course of four years, failures in controls were identified but not dealt with. Notwithstanding the failures in how it was set up, Mr. O'Callaghan has said that the board was not ignoring the Comptroller and Auditor General's opinions, but it certainly did nothing to correct the issues he identified. Why was that the case?