Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We will not open up any new lines of inquiry as the commission is already in existence, whatever about looking at issues that have been discussed previously.

Correspondence item No. 990 is from the Carlow-Kilkenny ETB with the information requested at the meeting on 16 November 2017 concerning key performance indicators and monies allocated to moneys invested in Coláiste Aindriú and training provided by the ETB. We will note that.

Correspondence item No. 992 has a briefing document concerning the Ferryhouse school residential centre in Tipperary. We note and publish that.

Correspondence item No. 995, from the deputy president of the University of Limerick, attaches a copy of an internal audit review 2017. It is provided on a confidential basis. The matters raised in the report are important and we may have to return to it. However, in the first instance we should write to the president or the Department or both to provide an update on actions taken arising from the report. Can we agree to do that? We have a report and we want to know the outcome but we will not publish that document today. We will include it in the work programme. It is a substantial document of 90 pages. It deals with the internal audit review of termination payments, further study, conflict of interest issues and correspondence to key stakeholders. It is the internal audit review carried out by Deloitte, dated August 2017. The final report issued on 29 August, but we cannot publish that at this point because of matters therein. We will come back to it when we get an update on that document.

The next item is correspondence item No. 998 from the Secretary General of the Department of Education and Skills, dated 21 September 2017, dealing with average working time spent by the chief executive and directors in primary work locations in the ETBs. We note and publish that. Members are free to use it.

Correspondence item No. 1000B is from the Higher Education Authority and contains information on expenditure on consultants and legal firms by third level institutions. Deputy Cullinane raised that matter just a moment ago. I am advised that we might hold over this correspondence because there might be commercial sensitivity issues. We will come back to this. There is a substantial amount of information in this document that-----