Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We have not seen any results from the open disclosure policy yet. The figures are going up. When we have representatives of the NTMA here, which will be scheduled close to the summer recess, we will invite the HSE. We might have just one session on that because we will have other NTMA business. However, the State Claims Agency and the HSE must be in the one room on that occasion.

The next correspondence is No. 1063 from Mr. Martin Shanahan, CEO of the Industrial Development Authority Ireland providing a response to a request from the committee for information relating to the verification of job creation and employment levels for its client companies. That had arrived shortly before we issued our interim report which made a recommendation on that. He refers to that in the final paragraph. In due course we will get a detailed response from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform in respect of our report. Can we note this? We will get a response to our periodic report, which contained that recommendation. He refers to the costs and benefits and say the figures are reasonably accurate. His point of view is how more accurate they will get if one installs a very complicated process. We will examine that when we get the response from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.

The next correspondence is No. 1048 from Ms Laura Burke, director general of the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, providing a response to the committee's request for an explanatory note on an item received by the committee from the Irish Environmental Forum. The correspondence from the EPA refers to a report by the European Environmental Agency in 2011 and other matters including the review of the EPA initiated in 2010.