Ms Justice Laffoy contacted the Department of Education and Science to say she feared that if the commission pressed ahead before the findings of the review became known, it might gather a large amount of information that might subsequently become useless. The Department's response was to state that the investigation committee must continue to discharge its statutory duties and to operate within its existing remit. While the Department was conscious of the resources mentioned by the Minister in her address today, it said that the investigation committee must continue to spend money for a purpose that might transpire to be useless after the review had been completed.