Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

They think we can sort out everything. An individual wrote to us about this issue. We did not go to the county councils on it. All we did was write to the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government because we just deal with Departments. The councils receive their funding from the Department so we asked it to give us information on it. We are not investigating the matter but are just getting an answer to the question raised and sending it on. We are not examining the case at all because it is not within our remit, as Deputy Aylward rightly points out. That said, the information from the Department is quite interesting and members will want to note it.

The next item is No. 870C, correspondence dated 3 November 2017 from Professor Patrick O’Shea, President of University College Cork, relating to refurbishment works at the university's school of chemistry during August 2016. This information was requested by the committee. We will note the correspondence and publish it. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Item No. 871C is correspondence dated 2 November 2017 from an individual in respect of the FÁS-SIPTU investigation. We will just note this item, which is historical.The next item, No. 872C, is correspondence dated 3 November 2017 from Mr. Michael Moriarty, general secretary of Education and Training Boards Ireland, ETBI, regarding the attendance of the chief executive of Kildare and Wicklow ETB at the WorldSkills conference in Abu Dhabi. We will note and publish this item. Members will see from the reply that it was not paid for by ETBI although the correspondence does not specify who paid for it.