Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)

What has the Minister of State done since admitting the existence of maladministration last October? Has he established who is responsible for the maladministration? Has he conducted any internal investigation, given that under the last three programmes at least €10 million has gone back to the European Commission? There are serious questions to be answered.

It is time for an independent investigation into the operation of these funding programmes to establish where the administrative and political responsibility lies, and to ensure that similar failures do not happen again. We know that there is another application pending.

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