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- Public Accounts Committee: Caranua: Financial Statements 2019 (17 Dec 2020)
Brian Stanley: The next speaker is Deputy Carthy.
- Public Accounts Committee: Caranua: Financial Statements 2019 (17 Dec 2020)
Brian Stanley: I ask Ms Hynes to respond to that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Caranua: Financial Statements 2019 (17 Dec 2020)
Brian Stanley: Regarding legal costs, when there has not been a satisfactory outcome as judged by a survivor and it has been challenged it legally, how much has Caranua spent on court legal costs since 2014?
- Public Accounts Committee: Caranua: Financial Statements 2019 (17 Dec 2020)
Brian Stanley: How many cases have survivors taken to the High Court?
- Public Accounts Committee: Caranua: Financial Statements 2019 (17 Dec 2020)
Brian Stanley: What has been the average cost of awards where they have been successful?
- Public Accounts Committee: Caranua: Financial Statements 2019 (17 Dec 2020)
Brian Stanley: Yes, the average cost.
- Public Accounts Committee: Caranua: Financial Statements 2019 (17 Dec 2020)
Brian Stanley: I am asking about successful cases.
- Public Accounts Committee: Caranua: Financial Statements 2019 (17 Dec 2020)
Brian Stanley: Ms Downes might come back to me with that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Caranua: Financial Statements 2019 (17 Dec 2020)
Brian Stanley: As I said at the outset, I am aware of people who benefited. Obviously, there are problems with every system and there is 98% satisfaction among people who were questioned and that is as it should be. I am aware of cases where people have benefited from the funding from Caranua, particularly for housing and to improve housing. The accounts show €96 million or €97 million in...
- Public Accounts Committee: Caranua: Financial Statements 2019 (17 Dec 2020)
Brian Stanley: Would Ms Downes say that was a mistake?
- Public Accounts Committee: Caranua: Financial Statements 2019 (17 Dec 2020)
Brian Stanley: I understand that there was a problem with consistency of tenancy or tenure. An independent review is being carried out, which Caranua commissioned. Who is carrying that out?
- Public Accounts Committee: Caranua: Financial Statements 2019 (17 Dec 2020)
Brian Stanley: Caranua commissioned him.
- Public Accounts Committee: Caranua: Financial Statements 2019 (17 Dec 2020)
Brian Stanley: What is the cost of that review?
- Public Accounts Committee: Caranua: Financial Statements 2019 (17 Dec 2020)
Brian Stanley: When is he due to report?
- Public Accounts Committee: Caranua: Financial Statements 2019 (17 Dec 2020)
Brian Stanley: Could this committee have a copy of its findings?
- Public Accounts Committee: Caranua: Financial Statements 2019 (17 Dec 2020)
Brian Stanley: Of course. I do not want to dwell on specific cases but I am familiar with a few cases and I just wanted to say this to be helpful. Public representatives here would know about this, particularly those who were councillors. With local authorities sometimes a person will make an application for a grant and the higher up in an office it goes the better the chance of it actually being dealt...
- Public Accounts Committee: Caranua: Financial Statements 2019 (17 Dec 2020)
Brian Stanley: I am just saying that by way of being helpful and I ask Ms Downes to take that away with her. There are four members present so I will let them in for three minutes each. I call Deputy Catherine Murphy.
- Public Accounts Committee: Caranua: Financial Statements 2019 (17 Dec 2020)
Brian Stanley: I ask Ms Hynes to come in on that for the Department.
- Public Accounts Committee: Caranua: Financial Statements 2019 (17 Dec 2020)
Brian Stanley: I wish to ask a question before we conclude. Regarding the appeals process, where clients got a refusal, were they always notified as part of that refusal that they had the opportunity to appeal the decision?
- Public Accounts Committee: Caranua: Financial Statements 2019 (17 Dec 2020)
Brian Stanley: In each and every case?