Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The individual maintains it could be a criminal offence to impersonate a Revenue official. It may be a criminal offence to set up a customs post if it is bogus. I have no idea what is behind this. If the person has something to say and believes an offence has been committed, the matter should be reported to the Garda rather than us. On we go. Deputy Deering is surprised at the correspondence that is coming our way.

No. 936C is correspondence dated 20 November from Marty Whelan of the Health Information and Quality Authority, HIQA, referring to documentation received by the committee from a private nursing home. The nursing home has sent two appeal notices to HIQA and these appeals will be heard in February. Enclosed is a copy of the letter from Phelim Quinn, chief executive of HIQA, to the nursing home. HIQA has stated that as the matter is under appeal, the authority will not be commenting further on the individual circumstances of the case. We have also received another item of correspondence submitted by the nursing home earlier. It was forwarded to the committee by Deputy McDonald. There are some legal concerns about the correspondence that was sent to us. We need time to consider how we should proceed. The secretariat is asking the parliamentary legal adviser to look at the correspondence before we discuss the matter in public.

No. 938C is correspondence dated 21 November 2017 from Dr. Richard Thorn relating to the Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board. What is that letter? I have not seen it. It came in yesterday. It relates to the University of Limerick review. He thanks us and acknowledges the work on the University of Limerick review. He understands that we asked for an executive summary. We had the report but no summary. He is happy to provide that and an explanation of why he did not have an executive summary.

I will quote from his email to the committee secretariat.

In relation to the Kildare and Wicklow ETB investigation, I will provide an Executive Summary and/or a Summary of Findings and Recommendations in line with the Committee's wishes.

Apropos the Committee's concerns about the unwillingness of members of Kildare Wicklow ETB to answer questions at a recent Committee hearing, I would welcome the opportunity to meet with the Committee to answer any queries they may have in relation to the conduct of the investigation once the report has been finalised and submitted to the Minister for Education and Skills, as per the legislative requirements of Section 40 of the ETB Act of 2013. I anticipate this submission taking place by the end of January 2018.