Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We will ask the Department to provide up-to-date information. We will not just deal with the report as originally prepared. The topic will be the provision of school transport and the special report but we will ask the Department to immediately ensure that we have up-to-date information to help us in our work on that. In other words, we want to discover what lessons has the Department learned from the report, which was completed over a year ago.

On Tuesday, 18 December, representatives from the Irish Prison Service will appear before us following the recent meeting with the whistleblower. We will also meet representatives from the Department of Justice, which is the Accounting Officer for the Irish Prison Service. This will involve Vote 21 - Prisons. The only time available during that week for a meeting is 9 a.m. on Tuesday, 18 December. Members wanted the meeting to happen before the end of the year. I am very pleased that the secretariat and the Department have agreed to facilitate our request to meet that week. The meeting will last until lunchtime at the maximum because the room is only available up until then. The issue of a quorum arises.