Paul Daly (Fianna Fail)
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They are funded by HRI which, as has been stated, receives massive sums of money from the public purse ever year. While it may receive a certain amount of money from the State and a certain amount of money from elsewhere through entry fees or whatever, putting the two parts together, there is no way of knowing what part was used. When a body is in receipt of public funding and money is spent or misappropriated, it is public money. It has matching funding and other sources of income, but it is a beneficiary of public funding.

Why else is it even duty-bound to come in here? Why else is it answerable to us? Why does it answer to the Oireachtas? Why does it and HRI have to attend the PAC? It is public money.