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

No. 3B refers to individual correspondence. No. 3B.1 is correspondence dated 19 March 2013 from Mr. Pat Brady, Dunboyne, County Meath regarding the apprentice programme allocation and is to be noted. Mr. Brady raised an issue about the further use of equipment installed in Institute of Technology Blanchardstown at a high cost and we should ask the Department of Education and Skills for a note on the matter.

No. 3B.2 is correspondence dated 20 March 2013 from Mr. William Treacy, Ballybrophy, County Laois regarding previous correspondence with the committee regarding welfare of horses and is to noted. Mr. Treacy has engaged in considerable correspondence. He has supplied documentation that he received under FOI that shows how the Department handled the issue. The issues he raises, including the welfare of his horses who were with a trainer, are issues over which the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine states it does not have a remit. As the issues have not formed part of a Comptroller and Auditor General report to the committee so the matters raised are outside its remit.