Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

No. 801C, dated 6 October 2017, is correspondence from Deputy John Brady relating to Kildare-Wicklow Education and Training Board, ETB. We have covered this and we will write to the Deputy to inform him that the committee will be addressing the matter once we have received the Department’s report on the matter. Is that agreed? Agreed.

No. 802C is correspondence, dated 5 October 2017, from an individual alleging wastage of financial resources at University College Cork, UCC. I propose that we write to UCC and request a detailed response to this matter. Is it agreed to note this? Agreed.

No. 804C is anonymous correspondence, dated 9 October 2017 and also sent to the Joint Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport and a number of other bodies. The individual alleges what can be described as inappropriate spending by Irish Rail. Irish Rail is not audited by the Comptroller and Auditor General and its accounts do not come before the Committee of Public Accounts. We could ask the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport for a response, but it is not an issue that this committee will look at. As it is anonymous correspondence, this committee cannot even write back to the individual if we get a response from the Department. We will just refer the correspondence to the Joint Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport, full stop. It is anonymous correspondence, there is no specific remark and Irish Rail is not audited by the Comptroller and Auditor General, so it will go over the transport committee. Is that agreed? Agreed.

There have been three sets of accounts and statements received since our last meeting. The first is the intestate estates funds account, which has a clear audit opinion. It receives the proceeds of unclaimed estates. Is wills and estates under the Department of Justice and Equality?