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

The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform is responsible for this area and the committee can ask it directly. The Deputies can pursue the matter with the Secretary General today.

I will now return to individual correspondence. Item No. 3B.3 is correspondence, dated 13 November 2015, received from Mr. John McCarthy, Secretary General, the Department of Environment, Community and Local Government regards strategic policy committees. It is to be noted and forwarded to Councillor Kenneth O’Flynn. Item No. 3B.4 is correspondence dated 16 November 2015, received from Mr. Michael Ewing of the Irish Environmental Network and is regarding the allocation of national lottery funding. This correspondence is to be noted and published. This matter can be raised with the Department today as the committee will be dealing with the national lottery fund today. Item No. 3C is documents relating to today’s committee meeting. Items No. 3C.1 and No. 3C.2 are briefing documents and are to be noted and published. Item No. 4 is reports, statements and accounts received since the meeting of 12 November 2015. I now invite the Comptroller and Auditor General to comment.