Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Okay. We understand that issue. We ask the Comptroller and Auditor General to come back to us on that specific issue as part of his ongoing work. We will let him report back on whatever he thinks is the best and most efficient format from his point of view.

No. 1089 is a letter, dated 14 February 2018, from Mr. John McCarthy, who is the Secretary General of the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government. Following our recent discussions on the funding of local authorities, we requested follow-up information on local government funding and local property tax allocations, as well as a note from the National Oversight and Audit Commission. We will note and publish that. We have that on our work programme. They will be coming before the committee in a couple of weeks. We will discuss that on our work programme.

No. 1091 is correspondence, dated 15 February 2018, from Ms Hilary Murphy-Fagan, who is the chief executive of the National Shared Services Office, providing follow-up information in relation to the previous meeting. I have marked item No. 8 on the correspondence in question and I want to raise it now. We asked her for a written explanatory note on how the figure for temporary rehabilitation remuneration is calculated. I was keen to know how they calculate this figure when people are out for extended periods on temporary remuneration for rehabilitation purposes. She wrote back to say that regulation 6 "provides that the rate of pay of temporary rehabilitation remuneration is the same as the rate of pension that the individual would be paid if they were to be ill-health retired". In other words, I asked her how her office calculates this and she wrote to say that it calculates it in the same way that it calculates something else. We will have to go back to ask her to give us a specific information note on how this figure is calculated. It is not enough to say it is calculated in the same way as something else if we do not know how the something else is calculated either. Deputies will understand my question.