Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 14 July 2016

Public Accounts Committee

Business of Committee

9:10 am

Photo of Seán FlemingSeán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

That will categorically be in our work programme. We will have representatives of the HSE before the committee to discuss its annual report as well.

We are now moving on to correspondence received since the last meeting. I will refer to the correspondence numbers. Correspondence items 26A and 30A refer to the Office of Public Works briefing and its opening statement for today's meeting. We will note that and its representatives will be here shortly. Correspondence items 17B, 18B, 19B, 20B and 21B were deferred from our last meeting and are to do with various reports of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform on the Bytel project, wards of court, fisheries harbours and a review of costs associated with undelivered capital projects of the Dublin Docklands Authority. I propose that we try to sign off on those next week before we break up for the recess. I ask members to have a look at those documents in case they wish to raise any issues at the next meeting. We will try to deal with them. Item 14C is correspondence from an individual in connection with the wards of court report. We will discuss that next week with the other documentation to try to conclude that issue.

Next, we have correspondence items 26B(a) to (i). Amongst them is a letter from Mr. Ray Mitchell of the parliamentary affairs division in the HSE and a number of appendices. These documents are a response to the committee’s request for information about section 38 organisations and the Console charity. Can we note them? We will note them, but they are part of tomorrow's agenda.

The next item is under category C correspondence. Item 4C is an item deferred from last week; it is correspondence from Mr. Graham Doyle, the Secretary General at the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport, regarding the committee’s request for information in relation to alleged unauthorised dumping on the R158 regional road upgrade. It has been determined that this matter is being dealt with by the local authority and does not fall within the remit of the committee. However, the clerk has reviewed past correspondence and the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, in its supervisory role of local authorities, has a file open in relation to this issue. I therefore propose that the clerk write to the EPA and request an update.

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