Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The Deputy has received her reply and is free to take and work with it once we have it published.

Category C is correspondence from private individuals or other correspondence. No. 320C is correspondence, dated 15 February 2017, received from an individual regarding fraud allegations made by Teagasc officials. The last committee received correspondence from this individual and subsequent replies from Teagasc. The secretariat is working on putting the information together and will circulate it among committee members for the next meeting. Can we agree to return to this topic at the next meeting? It was dealt with previously. We need to get the information given to the last Committee of Public Accounts. I received a registered letter from the individual concerned which I passed on to the secretariat this morning. We will come back to the general topic at next week's meeting. Is that agreed? Agreed.

No. 321C is correspondence, dated 25 February 2017, from Connolly for Kids Hospital on the building of the national children's hospital. As no date has yet been set for that meeting, we can ask the spokesperson to send a written submission, as indicated in the correspondence. We have written to the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and the Department of Health about the estimates for the project and costs incurred to date, asking in addition how it arrived at the original estimates. Obviously, the Connolly for Kids Hospital group has contacted us. The first thing we will do is take a written submission. Is that agreed? Agreed. We will be coming back to the issue directly. I also believe the health committee may be considering it.