Claire Kerrane (Roscommon-Galway, Sinn Fein)
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I thank our guests for the detailed opening statement they provided to us. Having read it and listened to it being put on record, I do not have many questions left but I want to get some more detail on a couple of points that were made. The changes to the scheme as it previously existed were put together without any engagement with the likes of our guests' organisation. How were they conceived, therefore? Who came up with them? Are our guests aware of anyone having been engaged with? Where did the changes come from? Obviously, they did not come from the review group, given that the recommendations from the latter have not been carried through in the changes to the scheme that have been announced.