Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Absolutely. Hopefully, we will have that report early in 2018.

The next item of correspondence is No. 933B, dated 16 November 2017, from Mr. Robert Watt, Secretary General of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, and provides information on the transfer of assets of dissolved companies to the State. The correspondence sets out in detail the legal situation and complexities. Members might wish to study this detailed response. If they have not yet had an opportunity to do so we will hold the item over and put it back on the agenda for the next meeting. There is a good deal of reading in it. Members could spend a few minutes reading it privately before we discuss it in public. In any case, it is held over to be on the list next week.

No. 934B, dated 17 November 2017, is from Mr. Paul O'Toole, CEO of SOLAS, and provides follow-up information requested by the committee at the meeting of 16 November. It includes SOLAS salary costs, staff numbers and a summary of consultancy costs in 2016. I should point out that these representatives appeared before the committee a week ago and this letter was sent to us the day after that meeting. That is an example of how public bodies should be able to supply information in written format to the committee. I contrast that with the Department of Education and Skills whose officials appeared before the committee and we are still waiting for extensive information from them. There has not been a dicky bird from them yet. We will watch and wait for that. We have not even received clarification of basic items that were discussed that day. SOLAS could teach the Department a lesson.