Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Absolutely. We note and will come back to that item. We will note and publish that.

No. 1128 is from Mr. John McKeon, Secretary General of the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection, and relates to an internal audit report on the activation and family support scheme. We will note and publish that.

No. 1229 is correspondence, dated April 2018, from Gerard Cahillane, a deputy director of the NTMA, providing a look-back exercise on PPPs. It is noted but we have not concluded on our deliberations the PPP issue yet. We will note and publish the correspondence.

The next item is a letter from Mr. Martin Fraser, Secretary General of the Department of the Taoiseach, on his attendance at the upcoming meeting of 3 May to discuss the strategic communications unit. There are three significant documents here. Mr. Fraser is the Accounting Officer. As is normal for the Accounting Officer of a Department, he is coming in to speak to us that day and will be accompanied by officials from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform who have responsibility in that area. I suggest we follow our normal procedures and refrain from inviting a second Secretary General. We do not normally bring in the Secretary General of a different Department. We will proceed as we normally do. The Secretary General of the Department of the Taoiseach is fully answerable to the committee and he will be accompanied by officials from his Department as well as from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. Officials from the latter are always here. There is no specific need to go any further than that. We will reserve the option of inviting the Taoiseach. We can come back to that.

The Secretary General of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform will appearing before us the following week, on 10 May, in any event so we can put any questions that arise to him on that day. We will give him notice if that arises.