Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Very good.

The next item, after the four statements of accounts received, is the work programme. It is on the screen in front of members. Next Thursday, we will have a paper on how to handle Stepaside Garda station and we will incorporate it into our work programme next week. I will go through the logic. Today, we have IDA Ireland financial statements. We decided at the commencement of the meeting that that meeting will adjourn at 12 o'clock as a mark of respect for the former Taoiseach, Liam Cosgrave, because the Dáil is doing no business other than statements today. Committees that are already meeting have been asked to allow members to attend the Dáil Chamber for that. We agreed that we will suspend in two hours' time for those who want to attend. I will be very tight on people's time for these two hours.

Transport Infrastructure Ireland is due to attend next week, as is Tusla. The HSE is due to address section 38 and section 39 bodies. That is going to take a full day because we will also include the Deloitte report on the south east case.

The Appropriation Account for the Department of Communications, Climate Change and Environment is to be addressed. That Department has not had representatives here in quite a while.

There is a chapter in the Comptroller and Auditor General's report about bank stabilisation. Part of that is the cost of the bank restructuring. We can also deal with the IBRC situation which Deputy MacSharry mentioned earlier. They dovetail with each other so I suggest that we need to allocate the full day of 16 November. It might take more than one meeting but we need to start addressing the costs with regard to the entire bank stabilisation issue. I know the issue of the tax-free holiday will come up for the next approximately 20 years as part of that process. We need to bring in the Department of Finance for that. We might agree who, specifically, is to come later and we will have to check that they are available.

I propose to, early on 23 November, address the Comptroller and Auditor General's report on corporation tax receipts. There is a very strong comment about corporation tax receipts, the effective rate and some companies paying an effective rate of 1%. The issue of taxation, the collection of taxes and the voting of expenditure are equally under our remit. The issue of tax paid by corporations in Ireland is very much under our remit.

I propose that on 30 November, social welfare and the management of social welfare overpayments, the Department review of social welfare schemes and the appeals process should be addressed. There is a big chapter about social protection payments and people will want to talk about it.

I propose that on Thursday, 7 December, we address chapter 12, management of ancillary services in An Garda Síochána. We will come back to that and we might write to An Garda Síochána today because when we did our interim report before the summer, our first module, we said that we would return to that issue. We knew that other audit reports were being conducted. We should ask for the up-to-date status and if some are available to send on to us but I did not want to let the period go without returning to the Garda Síochána. There is definitely a chapter connected with Templemore. We want to see where we are with that.

That is a suggestion for the coming week. We will deal with Stepaside next week. I call Deputy Kelly.