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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)
Seán Fleming: Roughly 10% of that figure have made applications. That is the only figure I have.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 96 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Child Abuse Inquiry and Redress (13 Apr 2017)
Seán Fleming: I am not asking Mr. Ó Foghlú to stand over it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 96 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Child Abuse Inquiry and Redress (13 Apr 2017)
Seán Fleming: At least, it gives us an estimate. Given that the Department had a vague idea of the licence agreements in operation for the schools at the time, why did Mr. Ó Foghlú consider the 2,000 figure was a valid starting point? It highlights a very major weakness in the original starting point.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 96 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Child Abuse Inquiry and Redress (13 Apr 2017)
Seán Fleming: Does Mr. Ó Foghlú have any idea of how many of the 16,000 were boys and how many were girls? If he does not know, he does not know.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 96 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Child Abuse Inquiry and Redress (13 Apr 2017)
Seán Fleming: It is not included in the Ryan report or any of the other reports.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 96 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Child Abuse Inquiry and Redress (13 Apr 2017)
Seán Fleming: No.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 96 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Child Abuse Inquiry and Redress (13 Apr 2017)
Seán Fleming: Will Mr. Ó Foghlú confirm that the legislation provided that all of the awards given by the redress board, whether it was €60,000 or €100,000, would be disregarded as means when it came to making applications for social welfare payments? I presume the answer is yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 96 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Child Abuse Inquiry and Redress (13 Apr 2017)
Seán Fleming: Is that a yes?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 96 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Child Abuse Inquiry and Redress (13 Apr 2017)
Seán Fleming: I would expect it to be. My next question is to the Comptroller and Auditor General. I had a conversation with Mr. Ó Foghlú at the beginning about when the meetings happened after the Ryan report was published in 2009. The offer of €352 million was made after a series of meetings. When the Comptroller and Auditor General was compiling his report, did he get records of any...
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 96 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Child Abuse Inquiry and Redress (13 Apr 2017)
Seán Fleming: Mr. McCarthy did not-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 96 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Child Abuse Inquiry and Redress (13 Apr 2017)
Seán Fleming: The Comptroller and Auditor General did not check the records of the actual meetings.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 96 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Child Abuse Inquiry and Redress (13 Apr 2017)
Seán Fleming: We are concluding the discussion of this issue now. It would be very wrong of me at this stage not to reiterate, on behalf of the committee, the apology made by the Taoiseach in 1999 on behalf of the State to the survivors of abuse when he announced the establishment of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse. We have been talking about the financial end of it. It might be a little raw...
- Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2014 and 2015 (13 Apr 2017)
Seán Fleming: In our first session we examined the Comptroller and Auditor General's special report No. 96 on the cost of the child abuse inquiry and redress scheme. In this session we will examine the financial statements of Caranua for 2014 and 2015. As I mentioned earlier, Caranua is an independent State body which was set up to help people who had experienced abuse in residential institutions in...
- Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2014 and 2015 (13 Apr 2017)
Seán Fleming: I invite Ms Higgins of Caranua to make her opening statement.
- Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2014 and 2015 (13 Apr 2017)
Seán Fleming: It is just that we are trying to follow it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2014 and 2015 (13 Apr 2017)
Seán Fleming: When Ms Higgins is finished, we will circulate it. Is the content of the draft we received-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2014 and 2015 (13 Apr 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will keep going and listen carefully.
- Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2014 and 2015 (13 Apr 2017)
Seán Fleming: We are at a little bit of a disadvantage.
- Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2014 and 2015 (13 Apr 2017)
Seán Fleming: I am going to ask for a copy. There will be time. As soon as Ms Higgins finishes, we will get a copy.
- Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2014 and 2015 (13 Apr 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will have copies circulated in a moment. All I can say at this stage is that members should bear with us.