Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The committee has received regular updates from the Department of Education and Skills on a property-by-property basis. At this stage, we might write to the Secretary General requesting a detailed, comprehensive report on the two separate agreements because the public is confused as to which is the original. We will need the dates of the original agreements and the valuation dates - let it be the date the Comptroller and Auditor General suggested - because I am sure it might have varied from religious order to religious order. In addition, we will want to see the dates on which the transactions were finally completed and where there are some outstanding, and the specific legal reason that is preventing completion. It may have to do with title and trusts and some of the religious institutions saying that they have to go to the Pope to get some of this signed off. I have heard that we are down to that type of argument. Let us crystalise this and get to the end of it. We will ask for that information.