Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The Minister has confirmed that there have been no interim reports. We do not know when it will be published. Can he tell us if that report will be published after it goes to the Cabinet? I cannot emphasise enough the context of all of this. Every single scheme has been faulty. I am a great admirer of the religious orders; they do great work. However, they were not particularly good with respect to the institutions, to put it at its mildest. We are treating them with kid gloves after a deal was done - well before the Minister's time - for €128 million, with an indemnity given to them. There was utter respect through each report. If the Minister remembers the mother and baby home commission, we called the evidence from the survivors contaminated, while great respect was given to the evidence from the religious orders, the social workers and all else.

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There has been a huge disrespect and an imbalance of power. Has the analysis of the assets been completed? Was it EY or another group that was appointed to carry out that cost analysis? Has it been completed and have the religious orders co-operated with that process? If it has not been completed, when will it be completed? Will the extra money go towards helping those who were excluded back into the scheme?

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