Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We understand where we are going with that.

The next item is No. 337C, dated 10 March from the National Transport Authority, providing a note on the licensing of bus services operated by Bus Éireann. We note and publish that.

The next item is correspondence from the Office of the Garda Commissioner dated 14 March, providing information on when a Garda Sióchána audit report on the Garda College will be sent to the Comptroller and Auditor General. We have it this morning. We have dealt with that, and it will be on the work programme.

No. 364C, correspondence dated 14 March from the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland outlining the reasons a €927,000 expenditure was not openly tendered for. The correspondence also describes the steps that have been put in place to ensure that the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland is fully compliant in the future. We will note this, and if anyone has any questions to come back on we will take them up again by way of further correspondence.

The next item is No. 365C, a copy of the protected disclosure made to the Minister for Finance and the Minister for Education regarding the Springboard programme in Dundalk Institute of Technology. We will note this, and I am sure that that matter will be raised when it is in. It is in tomorrow. We will hold that and include it as part of our correspondence for tomorrow's meeting as well.

No. 367C, an e-mail from Deputy Catherine Murphy outlining further information that should be requested from the Central Bank, following up on information provided by the bank to the committee as discussed at last week's meeting. Can we note and agree that the clerk would seek to follow up this information? Is that agreed? Agreed.

Correspondence No. 366C(i) and (ii) dated 13 March from the Secretary General of the Department of Health enclosing a report on the review of the project to build the children's hospital on the Mater site. This review was requested at the previous PAC, so we will consider that. We asked the board overseeing the hospital development committee to attend before the committee to discuss the overall costs. Last week it said that the Minister was bringing that topic to the Cabinet, and after the Cabinet has discussed it it will be free to come to us at that stage. There may be a similar request to the health committee, but we will hold that request over until the Cabinet has considered it, and because that report relates to the 'sunk' costs, as I call it, relating to the Mater site it needs to be considered at that meeting as well.

The next item is further correspondence, No. 370C-----