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

On that issue, the letter raises more questions than it answers. On 9 July we are dealing first with the Cork VEC report and subsequently with the HEA and the third level sector. I suggest that along with those officials that we should have someone from the colleges in this instance because of the €436,000. Certainly we should examine the agenda for that day in case someone else is required from a specific college. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Correspondence received since our meeting of 11 June 2015 includes correspondence from Mr. Robert Watt, Secretary General of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform re submission of accounts and laying of reports. This is a letter reminding the various accounting officers of the timeframes. No. 3 A.2 is correspondence dated 3 June 2015, from the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Brendan Howlin re the draft governance standard for central Government departments, to be noted and published. No. 3A.3 is correspondence dated 12 June 2015, from Mr. John McCarthy, Secretary General of the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government re follow-up on the housing project in Dromahair, Co. Leitrim, the Tipperary hostel project and Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council leisure centres, to be noted and published. No. 3A.4 is correspondence dated 15 June 2015, from Mr. Derek Moran, Secretary General of the Department of Finance, re follow-up from PAC meeting of 14 June 2015, to be noted and published. The Department has supplied all the FOI documents released relating to Siteserv. At this stage most of these documents are in the public domain and the substantive matters are matters for the O’Keeffe commission.

No. 3B is individual correspondence from Mr. Peter Wallis, Dalkey, County Dublin, re issues in Dún Laoghaire harbour, to be noted and published. This is a matter for the local authority which is outside the remit of the committee. Do we forward it to the Department with responsibility for local government for comment?