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

If you could. We received another letter today by registered post from HL Commodity Foods on an issue with which we were dealing and which Deputy Costello raised. We will circulate it to members. We dealt with the Irish Sports Council, ISC, and a letter arrived by courier yesterday evening. It is a detail of a reply to issues raised regarding Millstreet. At our meeting with the ISC, I felt it was agreed that an effort would be made, again, to mediate between the parties involved because there is an exposure to the State. This did not happen. In this correspondence, I am told that the people we asked to do it were busy with other matters. The committee asked that some form of mediation would take place and it is not good enough to send this letter by registered post the day before a meeting of the Committee of Public Accounts because it was raised at a previous meeting. I ask the committee to agree to get in touch immediately and insist that the mediation we requested be encouraged, requested and done as soon as possible.

We have agreed our agenda for 22 January 2015, when we will deal with Special Report No. 85 of the Comptroller and Auditor General on accountability and governance of the National College of Art and Design and the financial statements of the Higher Education Authority. Today, we are dealing with No. 7, the 2013 financial statements of NAMA. I remind members that we can deal in a general way with NAMA, its accounts, activities, processes and procedures but not with individual cases.