Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

This is one of the reasons we will look at this sector and we will have a separate meeting on that. We will not fall back on our duties on this.

Three months is the statutory deadline for the 2017 accounts and they will be brought before the committee in early April if they have not complied with the statutory position.

No. 834 is correspondence dated 23 October from an individual enclosing a letter from the IMPACT trade union regarding the PRSI classification of staff who transferred to Coillte from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. The correspondence states that an appeal by Coillte to a decision of the Department of Social Protection will have an adverse effect on the State in respect of pension provision for the staff in question. I propose to request an information note from the Department in the first instance. We will study the note when we receive it. As members will have noted, we have not disposed of three or four items of correspondence and will return to them instead.

Nos. 836C and 838C are items of correspondence from Deputies Alan Kelly and Mary Lou McDonald, respectively, related to the committee's upcoming engagement with the education and training boards. We will deal with this issue in a moment when we discuss the work programme.

The next item is two accounts and statements received since the previous meeting. These are shown on the screen and are clear audit reports for the Law Reform Commission and Institute of Public Administration.