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

No. 5 is the work programme. Our meeting next week will be with the HSE to deal with the 2011 accounts. We raised a number of issues in our recent report and we will seek updates on these as well as on the broad range of expenditure by the HSE.

The following week we will examine departmental oversight of the Dublin Docklands Development Authority DDDA. The new chairman of that authority, Mr. John Tierney, has been in contact with the clerk and he will attend the meeting. Mr. Tierney has only recently taken over the chair of this body and his input into the central issue of the acquisition of the Irish Glass Bottle site will be very limited, but we may use the meeting so that he may bring the committee up to date on the current financial position of the DDDA and the plans in place to wind up this body.

The DDDA has supplied the committee with some papers arising from its limited examination of the executive of the DDDA and I have asked the clerk to circulate a note with these so that members are familiar with the agreed approach being taken to the examination of the Comptroller and Auditor General's report on the DDDA. The DDDA correspondence will be circulated to committee members tomorrow and it might be helpful if we met in private session at the start of our meeting next week to discuss the resumed examination of the report of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the DDDA.