Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

It is under the HSE. We will write to the HSE to get an update and summary on that whole issue because €453 million is a big amount of money. We were all conscious of it a couple of years ago but we have kind of forgotten about the issue since. We will add that as an agenda item when representatives from the HSE are in next month. We will discuss the patients fund account, fair deal and the special account for the purposes of the Health (Repayment Scheme) Act 2006. We will put that on the work agenda for that meeting.

The next item is our work programme.

There is a draft going up on the screen. Today we have officials from the Department of Justice and Equality specifically to discuss the Vote for the Prison Service and the Comptroller and Auditor General report. We will not deal with the broader Department of Justice and Equality.

Next week there is a meeting scheduled to deal with Project Eagle. Just on that and even without going into private session, the conclusions of the secretariat's work will be circulated to all members next week. In December while we were working on it in addition to the normal secretariat that is available to us we had the support of another staff member as well as help from a second person. They have been moved to the secretariat of the Joint Committee on Future Funding of Domestic Water Services. The clerk is finalising it on his own and we are still doing our routine business as well. It is fully understandable why it has taken the extra week or so. The clerk assures me we will all have the document from the secretariat next week. We will then discuss it and amend it accordingly leading to a draft and then a final report. How long that takes will be up to the committee.