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Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2017 (17 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: Caranua has 317 live cases.

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2017 (17 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: It also has a big box with another 300 cases in it.

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2017 (17 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: Caranua has 378 cases on file that are not live, open cases. They are late applications.

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2017 (17 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: If, when Caranua winds up in June 2020 and the board is no longer in place, cases are taken against it or appeals are made and there is a tab to be picked up, will that cost fall on the Department? As we all know, residual issues can arise.

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2017 (17 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: Will it come out of the funding earmarked for the children's hospital? Will it come out of the moneys from the Christian Brothers - the excess moneys beyond the €110 million or whatever the figure is - that are to go to the children's hospital?

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2017 (17 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: It is going straight to the children's hospital. I would hate to think that would be clawed back if there are any residual costs to the Department.

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2017 (17 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: The Department will have to carry the cost. Is that what Mr. Ó hAonghusa is saying?

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2017 (17 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: The board is closing shop at the end of June. We have never seen its annual financial statements completed on time. Based on the experience of this year, last year and the previous year, Caranua's final financial statement will not come until several months after the date on which it is expected to close. I do not know how that will work.

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2017 (17 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: We are six months away.

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2017 (17 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: There is a big list of such Bills. It is difficult to see the timeline being easily met because we do not know which Government will move the Bill next year. I apologise to Deputy Munster for delaying her.

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2017 (17 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: Was that an administrative date?

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2017 (17 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: They are in reserve.

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2017 (17 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: That some will. We know about the applications Caranua received up to Tuesday, 1 August 2018. However, 378 have come in since Wednesday, 2 August 2018. I want to know how many came in that week, from the Wednesday. For example, somebody might have sent a letter from England and just because the post arrived two days late----

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2017 (17 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: That is great. What we are asking is that Caranua demonstrates that. I want to get an indication of the timing of the 378 that have been received since, for example, how many came in during August, September or the following month. Ms Hynes said earlier that Caranua received an inquiry in the last week or two, so they are still coming in. We have already established that €8 million...

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2017 (17 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: Does Caranua understand where we are coming from?

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2017 (17 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: Of those 378, I know 100 have come into the Caranua offices. Many of them must be in a panic because they were a month late or whatever.

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2017 (17 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: If it is 64%, about 120 of those are new people.

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2017 (17 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: We are going to ask Caranua to come back with some indication. If it is planning to be gone in six months, it must be in the middle of its planning process at this stage. I am just doing the sums off the top of my head. If there are 100 people out there and the average payment to date has been €13,000, that is €1.3 million, which is within the fund we think Caranua is going...

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2017 (17 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: Caranua should be able to give an estimate of the cost. Will it be giving priority to first-time applicants or is it irrelevant that somebody has had a previous claim?

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2017 (17 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: Need is the priority.