Alan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour) | Oireachtas source

There are three categories of correspondence for today's meeting. We will deal first with category A correspondence. No. 449A is briefing documents dated 28 April from Bord na gCon in advance of today’s meeting, to be noted and published. Is that agreed? Agreed.

No. 450A (i) to (iv) is briefing documents dated 28 April from the Garda Commissioner's office in advance of today’s meeting, to be noted and published. Is that agreed? Agreed.

No. 452A is opening statements dated 2 May from Dr. Seán Brady, interim chief executive officer, Bord na gCon, to be noted and published. Is that agreed? Agreed. Correspondence, No. 457A, which is the opening statement from the Garda Commissioner, was only received late yesterday afternoon. I hope everybody has had an opportunity to review it.

We will now move to category B correspondence, which is correspondence from Accounting Officers and-or Ministers and follow ups to previous meetings. No. 431B (i) and (ii) and 437B are correspondence dated 18 April and 20 April from Professor Don Barry, president of the University of Limerick, providing follow up information subsequent to UL's appearance before the committee regarding sabbaticals and money paid to Revenue, a breakdown of non-Irish students, a note on the number of facilitators employed and on complaints giving rise to reports and-or settlements. Also included are details on gender breakdown among staff. Is it agreed to note and publish this correspondence? Agreed. There are a number of follow-up items in the correspondence today on our engagement with the third level sector. It may be appropriate to set aside some time, possibly on 18 May, to discuss further how the committee might wish to proceed. Given the volume of correspondence, it would take up a good proportion of this meeting if we were to go through it today. Is it agreed to set aside time on 18 May to deal with that correspondence?