Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

All our printers worked overtime to produce them. There is a large amount of documentation on the agreement by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform to proceed on the basis of value for money. There is a valuation report from Jones Lang LaSalle, dated 31 March, which looked at the Central Bank complex on Dame Street, which we also inquired about. There is also an appendix on rents and comparable lettings. We have correspondence from a former valuer of the OPW, whom we will meet in due course and we will include this in the items of correspondence for that day. There is no need for us to get into the specifics of these detailed reports at this stage, though I wish to highlight one item.

No. 1704B includes a chronological note from the OPW relating to the Eyre Square building and on the 50 flood protection schemes under CFRAM. It also gave us a report on arbitration and a historical breakdown of the proportion of leased versus owned office accommodation. In 2009, 51% of its overall portfolio was leased and 49% owned but in 2015 44% was leased versus 56% owned, so the office has been in a position to let go of some of its leased buildings over a period of time. This is on page 12 of the document, if members want to have a look at it.

Finally, No. 1704(xvi) is a letter with 17 or 18 appendices about the national children's science museum, which is an issue nobody had really heard of. There is a detailed briefing note on that scheme and a three-page document. It seems to be an orphan project and no Department seems to want to own it.

The last sentence states:

The Chairman [that is obviously of ICML, the organisation involved in this] believes that the relationship between the State and the ICML requires [further] redefinition, taking guidance from the views of the current Government. In what might prove to be a positive development, the promoters have now indicated that they would be prepared to transfer the project to full State ownership on completion.

That is a little step in the right direction because the matter had been bogged down in terms of the ownership and management of it. We will certainly note and publish that because most other capital cities have a children's science museum and we should have one. Perhaps there has been some progress in that regard. We will note and publish it and if anyone wants to come back to it at a later do, they may do so.

The next item is 1705Bfrom Ms Pamela Carter, parliamentary affairs division, Department of Health, responding to the following matters raised at our meeting last week: CervicalCheck helpline; and terms of reference of the expert group on tort and management of clinical negligence claims. We will note and publish that, but hold it over. I am sure we will come back to the clinical negligence issue because of the State Claims Agency, and also, in due course, the CervicalCheck issue.