Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

That is a good suggestion.

Nos. 1596 C, 1597 C and 1604 C are pieces of correspondence from an individual who is alleging cover up by senior HSE and Tusla staff regarding retrospective allegations of abuse and with regard to his own employment. The correspondence refers to specific individuals and contains a considerable amount of personal information relating to the individual and his employment with the HSE. The case is complex and goes back a number of years. The correspondence includes copies of a complaint made to the Office of the Ombudsman that refers to court proceedings instigated by the correspondent against the HSE and Tusla. The correspondent was advised by the Office of the Ombudsman that his complaint did not come under its remit. The individual contacted the secretariat in October to inquire about the status of the correspondence because we had not dealt with it in public session when we received it and mentioned there was a case before the courts related to the matters raised in the correspondence. I propose that we do not circulate electronically and that we write to the correspondent to advise him that it is not within the remit of the committee to deal with matters that are before the courts or to deal with individual employment matters. Is that agreed? Agreed. The correspondence is available from the secretariat should any member wish to see it.

No. 1639 C is correspondence from an individual, dated 4 October 2018, relating to St Munchin's Community Centre, Kileely Court, Limerick. The correspondence is submitted as a protected disclosure and relates to an employment matter. It has not been circulated electronically because it contains a number of possibly defamatory allegations. The correspondent states a complaint has been submitted to the Workplace Relations Commission. Members will recall that we have received another item, No. 1396, from an anonymous source regarding St Munchin's. It is not clear whether the two items are linked. Regarding the item today, I propose that we do not circulate it and that we advise the individual that the committee does not generally investigate matters that are being investigated elsewhere and that it is not within our remit to investigate individual employment matters. Is that agreed? Agreed. It is an employment grievance that is before other State bodies and some of the correspondence is possibly defamatory so we cannot circulate it. It concerns St. Munchin's Community Centre in Limerick. We have already received one item of correspondence from an anonymous source concerning St. Munchin's and we now have correspondence from an individual whose name is there. They may or may not be connected. We cannot know because one is anonymous. This correspondence contains potentially defamatory material. The Deputy can inspect the correspondence, which is available from the secretariat, and if he wishes to bring it up next week-----