Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The first item on our agenda is the minutes of the meeting of 5 October, 2017. Are the minutes agreed? Agreed. Apologies have been received from Deputy Josepha Madigan. We are joined by the Comptroller and Auditor General, Mr Seamus McCarthy, who is a permanent witness to the committee and he is accompanied today by Mark Brady.

The next item is matters arising from the aforementioned minutes but there is nothing arising that will not be dealt with when we deal with our correspondence. The next item is correspondence received. The first items of category A correspondence are Nos. 792A and 798A, which are briefing documents and opening statements from Transport Infrastructure Ireland, TII, for today's meeting which we will note and publish. In category B we have correspondence from Accounting Officers, Ministers and follow-ups on previous meetings. The first item is No. 775B, which was held over from the last meeting. It is dated 26 September and is from Mr. Tony O'Brien, director general of the HSE. We noted and published this correspondence last week but said that we would return to it. The correspondence includes the independent review of the cost of care incurred by the service provider in the Grace case, known as the Deloitte report, as requested by the committee. Does anyone have any comment on this?