John Deasy (Waterford, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The timeline here is important. Everybody wants a particular entity to come before the committee yesterday, but there is a schedule and there are only a certain number of weeks available. The last time I spoke to the clerk about this he suggested that Carlow and Waterford could come before the committee in January. The situation, as it lies now, is that the Minister has appointed Mr. Michael Kelly, a former head of the HEA, to try to get the merger back on track. One of the parties involved has said it is not co-operating with that. There is a bit of a stand-off. The committee could do some useful work by bringing all entities in here sooner rather than later, based on the correspondence the Chairman has received, to get to the bottom of this. The meeting could include the sports centre to which he referred.