Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Before we bring in our witnesses we have some routine committee business to deal with. The first item to deal with is the minutes of the meeting of 31 May. Are they agreed? Agreed. There will be no matters arising that will not come up in the rest of our correspondence so I will move on to correspondence.

There are three categories of correspondence. The first is category A, briefing documents and opening statements. The first are Nos. 1378 (i) and 1378 (ii), opening statement and briefing material from Mr. Tadhg Daly, chief executive officer of Nursing Homes Ireland. This correspondence is to be noted and published. Nos. 1379 (i) and 1379 (ii) are an opening statement and briefing documents from the National Treatment Purchase Fund. This correspondence is to be noted and published. Next is No. 1381, the opening statement from the HSE for this morning's meeting, and No. 1383, the opening statement from Mr. John Gleeson This correspondence, discussed earlier, is to be noted and published.

Correspondence Nos. 1339B (i) to 1339B (iv), inclusive, 1340B (i) to 1340B (iv), inclusive, and 1341B (i) to 1341B (xxv), inclusive, were held over from the previous meeting. They are from Mr. Ray Mitchell, assistant national director of the HSE, dated 25 May and 28 May 2018 and provide information requested in respect of our meeting on CervicalCheck. There is a considerable volume of material. We met HSE officials this morning regarding this particular issue but we also have scheduled a meeting with the HSE for 5 July in the normal course of events to deal with its annual financial statement. We will note these items for the moment. They include quality assurance guidelines and the audit methodology paper that preceded the CervicalCheck audit in 2010. I will hold these documents for a minute and we will come back to them. There is a question as to whether they can be published.

No. 1353B is correspondence from Mr. Martin Fraser, Secretary General, Department of the Taoiseach, regarding the process followed in respect of information being brought to the Government relating to cases against the State. He also deals with queries we had on the strategic communications unit and the €700,000 spent on Project Ireland 2040 and includes a note on the training provided to staff on protected disclosures. This correspondence is to be noted and published. People are free to use that documentation.