Martin Conway (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Deputy Luke 'Ming' Flanagan and the Senator's colleagues will realise that in due course.

We have had the Crowley value for money report on funding for services for people with disabilities. I commend the former Minister, Mr. John Moloney, who realised that money was being squandered on disability services that were not getting to the people in need of such services. In fairness, he commissioned a report under Laurence Crowley which confirmed the squandering of money by the Government in the previous ten years on disability services. That party has the gall to go on national and local radio and speak about the attempts by the Government to pull back some of the waste of money. I commend Laurence Crowley for his report but the dirty work will have to be done by the Government to try to rectify the problem and ensure the waste is stopped, including the vast sums of money, ¤3,000 and ¤4,000 per week, paid to chief executives of NGOs. One particular chief executive of an NGO was in receipt of approximately ¤500,000 per year. We have to clean up all that skulduggery.