Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

No, it was about €3,000 or €4,000. I forget the figure. It was a few thousand anyway. I got all my money back. I was impressed ultimately. I had to wait three or four months but it all came right in the end. The system works. I was impressed by it. That is all I will say.

The next item is the work programme. There is a draft work programme in front of us now. Today we have the Department of Education and Skills and the HSE in the afternoon. The HSE will be here to deal with the record of previous HSE meetings.

We are scheduling the Higher Education Authority for a meeting next Wednesday and are suggesting 5 o'clock. We had intended dealing with it this afternoon but because of the HSE issue, we have moved the HEA to next week. We want to get it in before we meet with the third level institutions. On Thursday, 30 March we have UCC, Dundalk Institute of Technology and University of Limerick. On 6 April, we have Waterford Institute of Technology, Dublin Institute of Technology and National University of Ireland Galway. The meeting with the Higher Education Authority is scheduled for 5 p.m. next Wednesday but it may have to be moved because the business committee is considering the timing of the Dáil debate on our report on Project Eagle. There is a question of it being taken in Government time which will be next Wednesday evening. If that is the case, we will have to change the time and make the meeting with the HEA a little bit earlier. We will know when the business committee finishes its work today. We will come back to the committee if there is a change of time in that. We thought it might be on Wednesday morning at 11.50 a.m. but it might be taken in Government time on Wednesday so our meeting might have to move a little bit. That is 6 April.

On 13 April, we will have the Department of Education and Skills in to deal with the special report on the residential institutions redress fund and the follow through on that. Representatives from Caranua will join us for that meeting. There has been a lot of public discussion about Caranua. The following week is the Easter break and we are not sitting that week. The Dáil is not sitting the week after that either so there is a two-week Dáil break. Do members want to sit that second week and have a meeting to deal with some of our issues or are we happy to leave the two-week break? I do not detect any gushing enthusiasm for an earlier meeting. We will move on.

Provisionally we have the Revenue Commissioners set for 4 May. On 11 May we have the Department of Finance. There is an issue we have to deal with. I have gone off script here.