Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

No, not yet. We will get that. Different views were expressed at the meeting and we wrote to the Minister.

Correspondence No. 1466 from Mr. Liam Sloyan, chief executive officer, National Treatment Purchase Fund, providing follow up information requested by the committee regarding expenditure and giving a breakdown of expenditure in particular categories. Ophthalmology was €10 million, orthopaedics was €8 million, general surgery was €2 million, cardiac was €3 million, ear, nose and throat was €3 million and smaller items in relation to urology, gynaecology, dental and non-cosmetic plastic surgery was €100,000, to total of almost €30 million in that area. We note and publish this. People will be interested in the breakdown of that funding.

Correspondence No. 1467 from Mr. Ray Mitchell, Health Service Executive, provides information to a the numbers of parliamentary questions dealt with by the Department of Health and HSE, which we noted and publish.

Correspondence No. 1468 from Ms Vivienne Flood, public affairs, RTÉ, enclosing a summary report requested by the committee from Eversheds Sutherland on the use of freelancers-contractors at RTÉ. RTÉ states it is committed to developing and implementing a new policy in relation to the engagement of freelancers-contractors. We note and publish that. We discussed this at length as part of the committee's report. RTÉ said it would complete this matter by the end of December. We will ask for a report in January on the implementation of the commitment given here.