John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

No. 3A.4 is correspondence, dated 8 February 2013, from Mr. Gerry Murphy, chief executive officer, National Transport Authority, re providing information requested at our meeting of 24 January 2013, to be noted and published. Correspondence, dated 8 February 2013, from Ms Geraldine Tallon, secretary general, Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government, re providing information requested at the meeting of 6 December 2012, is to be noted and published. Correspondence, dated 11 February 2013, from Mr. Robert Watt, secretary general, Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, re providing information requested at our meeting of 13 December 2012, is to be noted and published.

Correspondence, dated 12 February 2013 from Ms Geraldine Tallon, secretary general, Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government, re possible merger of the local government audit service and the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General, is to be noted and published. We will revisit the matter in the context of our meeting with the auditors from local government. We will get information for the Members on the background for the new proposal regarding the audit service.

No. 3A.8 is correspondence, received 12 February 2013, from the Waterford Institute of Technology, which was marked strictly confidential, forwarding a Deloitte report in respect of non-pay expenditure incurred in the office of the former president of Waterford Institute of Technology, to be noted. As previously agreed by the committee, we will await the report of the special inspector before returning to the issue. I remind Members that the correspondence was given to the committee on the basis that it will remain confidential. Is there any idea when we will have the report from Mr. Quigley or from the Department of Education?