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- Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2014 and 2015 (13 Apr 2017)
Josepha Madigan: Did Ms Higgins say that or did she not?
- Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2014 and 2015 (13 Apr 2017)
Josepha Madigan: Ms Higgins did not say it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2014 and 2015 (13 Apr 2017)
Josepha Madigan: Could Ms Higgins tell me what she did say?
- Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2014 and 2015 (13 Apr 2017)
Josepha Madigan: I saw that in Ms Higgins's opening statement.
- Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2014 and 2015 (13 Apr 2017)
Josepha Madigan: So that is really the same thing, in essence.
- Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2014 and 2015 (13 Apr 2017)
Josepha Madigan: I am not saying Ms Higgins is trying to deny them anything but I think she can understand how that can come across as a pejorative and insulting statement.
- Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2014 and 2015 (13 Apr 2017)
Josepha Madigan: And that it has quite passive-aggressive undertones. Does Ms Higgins accept that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2014 and 2015 (13 Apr 2017)
Josepha Madigan: So there is an admission that Ms Higgins said it and that she did not mean anything by it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2014 and 2015 (13 Apr 2017)
Josepha Madigan: Did Ms Higgins say the complaints about Caranua suit the narrative of the big bad State and the big bad religious congregations?
- Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2014 and 2015 (13 Apr 2017)
Josepha Madigan: Would Ms Higgins like to explain those comments?
- Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2014 and 2015 (13 Apr 2017)
Josepha Madigan: The complainants have not done anything wrong.
- Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2014 and 2015 (13 Apr 2017)
Josepha Madigan: I know, but by saying that it feeds into that narrative. It can come across as insensitive in effect.
- Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2014 and 2015 (13 Apr 2017)
Josepha Madigan: Yes, I will move on but I just wanted to give Ms Higgins the opportunity to respond to those comments because they are about people who have gone through harrowing times and when they listen to that it complicates the situation for them and compounds their suffering. In relation to the limit on the number of services one can apply for and the fact that there was a cut-off point in...
- Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2014 and 2015 (13 Apr 2017)
Josepha Madigan: Is there no correlation at all?
- Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2014 and 2015 (13 Apr 2017)
Josepha Madigan: What was the reason for the abrupt withdrawal of services? I will talk more about the figures in a moment. It seems to me that a lot of money was spent very quickly on a small number of claims and it was not anticipated that there would be further claims down the line. Ms Higgins accepted that. I know the Comptroller and Auditor General referred to the control over grant payments and the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2014 and 2015 (13 Apr 2017)
Josepha Madigan: The files were closed, according to some claimants and they were told they could no longer avail of the services, just like that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2014 and 2015 (13 Apr 2017)
Josepha Madigan: Ms Higgins does not know.
- Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2014 and 2015 (13 Apr 2017)
Josepha Madigan: Does Ms Higgins think they fabricated that or that it happened?
- Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2014 and 2015 (13 Apr 2017)
Josepha Madigan: Is there anyone with Ms Higgins who would know?
- Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2014 and 2015 (13 Apr 2017)
Josepha Madigan: So Caranua withheld some of the services that were originally provided? Back in 2014 it was advertised that there was no limit. The guidelines, which were published in May 2014 state that there is no limit on the number of services one can apply for. Claimants made claims and abruptly in 2015 they were told that the services could not be provided. I want an explanation for them. I am...