Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We will see whether the two emails match up.

No. 1013C is correspondence from Mr. Andrew Deeks, President of UCD, in response to our letter on non-compliant procurement expenditure. The correspondence seems to suggest that the Office of Government Procurement, OGP, is facing some difficulties in supporting the college in respect of this. I propose that we write to the OGP for a response to this correspondence and that we note and publish it. We will look forward to receiving a reply.

No. 1015C is correspondence from Mr. Aidan O'Driscoll, Secretary General of the Department of Agriculture, Food and Marine, in response to our letter of October last year on the alleged misappropriation of public funding at a charity, the Irish Horse Welfare Trust. The secretariat had to remind the Department about the matter recently. I am disappointed that the Department is now suggesting, in its letter of 9 January, that it will take the matter up with the charity directly. I would have expected that this would have been done before now. I suggest that we write to the Department stating that we want that followed up within the next ten days. We will forward the correspondence received to date to the person who contacted us in the first instance.

That is the end of correspondence. However, No. 1017 has appeared on screen in front of me.