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- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 96 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Child Abuse Inquiry and Redress (13 Apr 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Is Mr. Ó Foghlú not sure if there are minutes of those meetings?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 96 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Child Abuse Inquiry and Redress (13 Apr 2017)
Catherine Connolly: If they were formal meetings there would have been. That is okay. These are important questions because some agreement-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 96 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Child Abuse Inquiry and Redress (13 Apr 2017)
Catherine Connolly: That is okay. Will Mr. Ó Foghlú check that for us?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 96 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Child Abuse Inquiry and Redress (13 Apr 2017)
Catherine Connolly: As a result of that series of formal meetings a figure was agreed.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 96 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Child Abuse Inquiry and Redress (13 Apr 2017)
Catherine Connolly: We will not use my time with the meetings. I will just get a list from Mr. Ó Foghlú. I want the outcomes of those meetings. What was the figure?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 96 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Child Abuse Inquiry and Redress (13 Apr 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Will Mr. Ó Foghlú remind me? I am sorry.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 96 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Child Abuse Inquiry and Redress (13 Apr 2017)
Catherine Connolly: It was €480 million. That was the original offer at one of these meetings.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 96 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Child Abuse Inquiry and Redress (13 Apr 2017)
Catherine Connolly: The figure is €193 million.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 96 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Child Abuse Inquiry and Redress (13 Apr 2017)
Catherine Connolly: How much of that has been given over?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 96 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Child Abuse Inquiry and Redress (13 Apr 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Just €97 million. Is it 50%? It is 50%.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 96 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Child Abuse Inquiry and Redress (13 Apr 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Just 50% since 2009. Okay. How is the Department of Education and Skills pursuing that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 96 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Child Abuse Inquiry and Redress (13 Apr 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Are there documents showing all of this?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 96 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Child Abuse Inquiry and Redress (13 Apr 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Are they freely available to us as Deputies?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 96 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Child Abuse Inquiry and Redress (13 Apr 2017)
Catherine Connolly: That is great. So, 50% of what they promised in 2009 has not been paid over.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 96 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Child Abuse Inquiry and Redress (13 Apr 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Would there be many properties that would remain in the same role?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 96 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Child Abuse Inquiry and Redress (13 Apr 2017)
Catherine Connolly: I am not sure if the Chairman is looking at me to stop.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 96 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Child Abuse Inquiry and Redress (13 Apr 2017)
Catherine Connolly: I did not realise I had that time. I would not have been so hard on pushing Mr. Ó Foghlú to answer so quickly. I was trying to get them in. Why has it taken so long?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 96 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Child Abuse Inquiry and Redress (13 Apr 2017)
Catherine Connolly: The first big problem is value for money. From what I have heard from people who have been through the system, and I have had that privilege in a different life as well, the big problem is that I know when the figure - €1.2 billion or €1.5 billion - is mentioned, it seems as if the survivors are getting it. I have mentioned this already and I am going back to it. That is not...
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 96 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Child Abuse Inquiry and Redress (13 Apr 2017)
Catherine Connolly: I would like to think that but then we fast-forward to 2009 and we have the Minister for Education and Science of the time making a statement in the Dáil that the State had no input into the Magdalen laundries. That has since been disproved and we have had the Magdalen report. Now we are up to the mother and baby homes and again the State is doing its damnedest. My question to Mr....
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 96 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Child Abuse Inquiry and Redress (13 Apr 2017)
Catherine Connolly: It is Mr. Ó Foghlú's role to talk about the Department of Education and Skills. It was his role to answer questions about what he said in respect of the proposed redress scheme for the mother and baby homes.