Alan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour) | Oireachtas source

Yes. As I said, the volume of correspondence we have received will require a significant amount of time to deal with. We should not try to deal piecemeal with it now.

No. 435B (i) to (vii) is correspondence dated 13 April from Professor Patrick O Shea, president of University College Cork providing follow-up information subsequent to UCC’s appearance before the committee. Topics covered include intellectual property policy, acquisition of Irish Management Institute, staff travel costs, student financial supports and legal costs, to be noted and published. Is that agreed? Agreed.

No. 436B (i) to (ii) is correspondence dated 21 April from Ms Ann Campbell, president of Dundalk Institute of Technology, providing follow-up information subsequent to DKIT’s appearance before the committee on gender breakdown among staff, to be noted and published. Is that agreed? Agreed. No. 437B (i) to (ii) is correspondence dated 20 April from Professor Don Barry, president of University of Limerick, providing follow-up Information subsequent to UL’s appearance before the committee on gender breakdown across different parts of the college to be noted and published. Is that agreed? Agreed.

No. 438B (i) to (ii) is correspondence dated 24 AprIl 2017 from Mr. Alan Doyle of the National Treatment Purchase Fund, providing follow-up information to our meeting with the HSE and Department of Health on 9 March 2017. A note is included on the role of the fund, how rates are determined, the appeals process and the dispute resolution process, to be noted and published. Is that agreed? Agreed.

No. 444B is correspondence dated 26 April from Professor Brian Norton, president of Dublin Institute of Technology, providing follow-up information subsequent to DIT’s appearance before the committee on the breakdown between full and part-time staff, losses incurred by DIT on library subscription service, the €3 million paid to BIMM to deliver BA in commercial modern music, a note on gender breakdown and a note on the implications of a two-year delay to the Grangegorman project, to be noted and published. Is that agreed? Agreed.

No. 445B (i) to (xxiii) is correspondence dated 26 April from Professor Willie Donnelly, president of Waterford Institute of Technology, providing follow-up information subsequent to WIT's appearance before the committee on gender breakdown, Company Registration Office files and a report on FeedHenry, to be noted and published. Is that agreed? Agreed.

We now move to category C correspondence from or in relation to private individuals and any other correspondence. No. 426C (i) to (ii) is correspondence dated 18 March 2017 from an individual regarding the best use of public money on social housing and South Dublin County Council. Matters in relation to local authority policy decisions do not fall within the remit of the committee. I propose we write to the individual informing her of this. Is that agreed? Agreed. Members can take note of this and raise it in another forum if they so wish.

No. 428C (i) to (iii) is correspondence from a firm of solicitors dated 12 April about a client who is seeking to address the committee on the Grace commission of inquiry and the standard of her care by the Health Service Executive. While the client maintains that the issues she raises are not covered by the commission of investigation, the terms of reference state that the commission shall exercise discretion in the scope and intensity of the investigation it considers necessary and appropriate. I think, therefore, that the best way of dealing with this, with the correspondent’s permission, is to forward this letter with a note from the committee requesting that commission give consideration to the matters raised. Is that agreed or do members have an alternative proposal?