Maureen O'Sullivan (Dublin Central, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Were the employer's contributions paid through HSE funding? If so, that is public funding and there is an accountability issue to address. The CRC has shown its disdain for its employees as well as for the relevant Departments and the HSE. The employees feel very much abandoned and crushed in respect of this mess which is not of their making. They are the workers who had to face the public disappointment, disdain and disgust over the other controversies involving the CRC and this is what they are left with now. The affected staff should get the full value of their pensions. I note what the Minister of State said and that it is being treated as a matter of urgency but my question is how anyone can trust the CRC given its behaviour to date on this and other issues. I seek the Minister of State's assurance that this is not going to go off the agenda now that the Topical Issue has been taken and that the CRC will be given a timeframe in which to come back to the Department.

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