Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

It is the main item of discussion in correspondence, and I want to get the other things out of the way. That is all I am doing at the moment.

The next item is No. 808C,correspondence dated 13 October 2017 from Alan Kelly with a list of questions to be forwarded to Cork Institute of Technology. Can we note that? The letter has been issued by the secretariat.

As a general point, we often agree at this meeting to ask questions of bodies and send the questions on to them. On some occasions members have been asked to forward individual questions to the secretariat. When the letter goes out from the secretariat it is in the name of the Committee of Public Accounts, and it might be the particular view of a particular member. In future, when follow-up questions are sent in from individuals, the rationale for the question should be clarified. If questions are sent out in the name of the committee we have to be satisfied there is a rationale to the question.