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

The minutes of the meeting of 9 July 2015 have been circulated. Are the minutes agreed? Agreed. Are there any matters arising from the minutes? No.

We will now deal with correspondence from Accounting Officers and Ministers. No. 3A.1 is correspondence dated 10 July 2015, received from Mr. John McCarthy, Secretary General of the Department of Environment, Community and Local Government. It is a follow-up from our meeting of 25 June 2015 and is to be noted and published. No. 3A.2 is correspondence dated 14 July 2015, received from the HSE. Again, it is a follow-up from our meeting on 23 April 2015 and is to be noted and published. No. 3A.3 is correspondence dated 15 July 2015, received from the HSE. It is a follow-up to our meeting on 23 April 2015 and is to be noted and published.

Item No. 3A.4 is correspondence dated 20 July 2015, received from NAMA. It is a follow-up from our meeting of 9 July 2015 and is to be noted and published. We can deal with this issue next week. No. 3A.5 is correspondence dated 20 July 2015, received from Mr. Daithí McKay MLA, Chairperson of the Committee for Finance and Personnel of the Northern Ireland Assembly, regarding a letter to the Minister for Finance, Deputy Michael Noonan, about the sale of NAMA assets in Northern Ireland. This is to be noted and published. The financial statements of NAMA will be examined next week and this issue can be raised then.

Item No. 3A.6 is correspondence dated 27 July 2015, received from Mr. Niall Cody, Chairman of the Revenue Commissioners, which is a follow-up to our meeting of 2 July 2015. It is to be noted and published. No. 3A.7 is correspondence dated 28 July 2015, received from Mr. John McCarthy, Secretary General of the Department of Environment, Community and Local Government. It is a follow-up to our meeting on 25 June 2015 in regard to Irish Water and is to be noted and published. No. 3A.8 is correspondence dated 1 September 2015, received from Mr. Ted Owens, CEO of Cork Education and Training Board, with further information from our meeting on 9 July 2015, and is to be noted and published.

Item No. 3A.9 is correspondence dated 4 September 2015, received from NAMA. It is a follow-up from our meeting on 9 July 2015 and is to be noted and published. Again, this can be dealt with at our meeting next week. No. 3A10 is correspondence dated 10 September 2015, received from Mr. Aidan O’Driscoll, Secretary General of the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. It is a follow-up from our meeting on 18 June 2015 and is to be noted and published. We will correspond with the individuals concerned. The committee is still awaiting extensive information in respect of the untruths we were told by the seven members of the delegation that we met in May this year. We asked at our meeting with the Secretary General that he provide us with a line-by-line rebuttal of what he sees as the inaccuracies or untruths in those statements, but we have not received that to date. That is disappointing, because we emphasised that leaving what he said on the public record is unsatisfactory. I suggest we write again to remind the Secretary General that this information is required urgently.