Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We will come back and review that after today's meeting. The points are all well made and noted. We will take the matter up with Mr. Ó Foghlú, the Secretary General later this morning.

The next correspondence, Nos. 1881 and 1882, are the opening statements from the Department of Education and Skills, which we will note and publish. We will discuss them later this morning.

The next correspondence is category B, from Accounting Officers and Ministers following up on previous meetings. The first letter relates to NAMA, Project Nantes and the legal advice. We will try to schedule that in the next week or two. We had a private meeting on Tuesday but we need another half an hour on that issue alone, as well as some time for a few other issues. We will have to schedule another private meeting for an hour in the near future. We will not set a date today and will hold over that item.

We have published that already. We have arranged for that to be published, but we will get the legal advice shortly.

The next correspondence is No. 1795B from the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment dated 11 December 2018. It provides a briefing note on the national broadband plan and metropolitan area networks. We decided that we would hold this over. We published it but we are holding it over for discussion. We will be dealing with some of the other people in that industry in two weeks' time and, well in advance of that, everyone will have had an opportunity to review and discuss the matter.

The next correspondence is No. 1816B from the National Treasury Management Agency providing information requested relating to the percentage of ownership by the State of the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund. We agreed to note and publish this but we decided to write to the NTMA because we did not believe those responsible answered the questions that the committee wanted answers to. We have written to them and we are waiting to get a reply to the more specific question next time.