Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Members of the committee followed an article in a Sunday newspaper and that should be our commencement point. In any event, the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission has investigated the matter in respect of that meeting and it gave the organisation a clear bill of health. We need a copy of that ruling. A Deputy referred correspondence that some of us received to the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission for investigation and it has completed its investigation of the matter. We can ask Nursing Homes Ireland for its comments in that regard.

Where a State organisation is spending €1 billion, it is the private sector that receives the €1 billion. Nursing Homes Ireland is a bit like the section 38 and 39 organisations in that it is the organisation providing the service and so it might be able to provide us with some useful information to put to the National Treatment Purchase Fund. Is it agreed that prior to dealing with our main business on 17 May, we will have a brief meeting of, say, one hour, with Nursing Homes Ireland?